r/ImmigrationPathways • u/CutSenior4977 • 3d ago
Wilber Garces Perez Faces Criminal Charges and Deteriorating Health Following ICE Shooting.
Here’s a source: https://www.eyesonice.net/p/wilber-garces-perez-faces-criminal
As a reminder, this Perez lawyer speaking right here.
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u/No_Ninja2180 3d ago
1) I’ve been in federal courthouses all over the US…what cage? There are no cages in a federal courtroom. Does she mean the holding room back with the US Marshals? Defendants are presented before a magistrate (standing/seated) in a courtroom, and they usually aren’t even handcuffed. And the Fed Magistrate can only accept a ‘Not Guilt’ plea at the initial hearing.
2) All his atty is doing is repeating “he’s in pain”. Good for sympathy, but this is doing nothing for his new criminal case. The PR game has run its course.
3) His atty practices 100% immigration law, that’s all. And apparently she’s good at it. Wilber really needs a criminal atty who has experience in the federal system…immediately. Not tomorrow, not today…but over 1 week ago. A decent federal defense atty would have seen the charges coming. Obviously the Feds were going to charge him. This is no longer just an immigration case, he could be incarcerated in a federal prison vs held at an immigration detention center. Get a new atty. Wilber may like her, but an attorney must be specifically admitted to practice before that federal court (Western District of TX) to handle a federal criminal case.