Published: 01.08.2009

Tucson judge dismisses charges against border agent
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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.
But Corbett also faces a civil suit Dominguez’s family filed last month.
A Border Patrol spokesman in Washington said Corbett remains on administrative duties while an internal investigation continues.
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