The Washington Times
A former U.S. Border Patrol agent, whose conviction in federal court for using excessive force during the arrest of an illegal alien was overturned because of prosecutorial misconduct, has been ordered reinstated with full back pay.
The District-based Merit Systems Protection Board ordered that Agent David J. Sipe, 35, of Bethany, Okla., be returned to full duty following his acquittal on all charges during a court-ordered retrial in January.
The order, granting full back pay and interest to April 2001, was signed last week by Administrative Judge Anna M. Love.
Mr. Sipe won a new trial after disclosures that an illegal alien received a "get out of jail free card" plus U.S. legal documents and monetary compensation from federal prosecutors in exchange for his testimony against the agent, accused of using excessive force during the 2000 arrest of Mexican national Jose Guevara.
Posted by tyne at June 19, 2007