In January 2007, the world stood up and took notice when U.S. Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Corbett gunned down an illegal immigrant without provocation. Still…as it’s been for the past eight years, people chose sides on this one. Siding with the immigrant was Mexican President Felipe Calderon, encouraging a complete investigation.

Francisco Javier Dominguez Rivera, 22, of Puebla, Mexico, was crossing the southern Arizona desert with two of his brothers and one of their girlfriend’s when Corbett caught the group and began to arrest them. According to Dominiguez’s companions, he was going to his knees to surrender when Corbett shot him. However, the defense attorneys said that the agent shot in self-defense after Dominguez tried to hit him with a rock.

In the end, an Arizona judge declared a mistrial after a jury deadlocked in the case against Agent Nicholas Corbett on three possible charges: second-degree murder, manslaughter or negligent homicide.

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