Corbett’s charges officially dismissed


Published/Last Modified on Monday, January 12, 2009 3:11 PM MST


TUCSON (AP) — It’s official: Border Patrol agent Nicholas Corbett won’t be tried again in an illegal immigrant’s shooting death.


U.S. District Court Judge David Bury has granted a prosecution motion to dismiss second-degree murder, manslaughter and negligent homicide charges. They could be refiled if new evidence is developed.

Two trials in 2008 ended with jurors deadlocked.

Bury’s action last month ends criminal proceedings stemming from the Jan. 12, 2007, shooting of 22-year-old Francisco Javier Dominguez Rivera of Puebla, Mexico, in Cochise County. The order was signed Dec. 12.

But Corbett also faces a civil suit Dominguez’s family filed last month.

 

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