August 7, 2007
Section: NEWS
Page: A1
Border agent’s first-degree count is tossed
BRADY MCCOMBS, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
Serious charges remain in death of Mexican man
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BISBEE – A judge dismissed first-degree murder charges against a Border Patrol agent in the shooting death of a Mexican man near the border but ordered him to stand trial on counts of second-degree murder, manslaughter and negligent homicide.
Bisbee Justice of the Peace David Morales delivered his decision to a packed courtroom at about 5:30 p.m. Monday after hearing more than seven hours of testimony in a preliminary hearing for agent Nicholas Corbett, 39.
Morales determined that the Cochise County Attorney’s Office didn’t demonstrate probable cause to warrant the first-degree charge, but it did meet that standard for the other three.
The shooting of Francisco Javier Domínguez Rivera, 22, of Puebla, Mexico, occurred on Jan. 12 near the Mexican border between Bisbee and Douglas
Source: www.azstarnet.com
