José Alonso Compeán (born 1976) is a former United States Border Patrol Agent, convicted of shooting (wounding) a fleeing, illegal alien drug smuggler on the United States–Mexico border near El Paso, Texas, on February 17, 2005, and of covering up the shooting: i.e. "obstructing justice by willfully defacing the crime scene". On 19 January 2009, President Bush commuted the sentences of both Compean and fellow agent Ignacio Ramos, effectively ending their prison term on March 20, 2009,[1] and they were released on February 17, 2009.[2] They were granted full pardons on December 22, 2020, by President Donald Trump.[3]
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- ^ "Statement from the Press Secretary Regarding Executive Grants of Clemency". whitehouse.gov. Retrieved December 22, 2020 – via National Archives.