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https://www.ktvu.com/news/ice-may-have-mistaken-man-shot-california-someone-else-attorney
MODESTO, Calif. - An attorney for the man shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in California's Central Valley believes his client was targeted on the basis of bad information, even though he was charged, and later acquitted, for murder in El Salvador.
Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez was shot and injured on Tuesday near I-5 in Patterson, Calif., just outside of Modesto.
The other side:
Patrick Kolasinski, who is representing Hernandez and his fiancé, Cindy, held a news conference on Wednesday, stating that as far as he knows, his client has never been involved in any gang, as ICE alleged the day before.
Kolasinski did acknowledge that Hernandez was charged – and then acquitted – of murder in El Salvador, which he obtained court documents for and shared with reporters.
Hernandez was the only person acquitted of murder in that case, and therefore, there could be no way there could have been a warrant out for his arrest, his lawyer said.
The documents also refer to the 36-year-old Hernandez by his nickname of "El Pana," which show his acquittal came in 2019, the same year he came to the United States. The word used in the document is "absuelto."
"So if he was released after being acquitted with no other holds on him, he cannot have a warrant," Kolasinski said. "So that information must be either erroneous or completely made up, and only DHS knows what they're looking at."
MODESTO, Calif. - An attorney for the man shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in California's Central Valley believes his client was targeted on the basis of bad information, even though he was charged, and later acquitted, for murder in El Salvador.
Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez was shot and injured on Tuesday near I-5 in Patterson, Calif., just outside of Modesto.
The other side:
Patrick Kolasinski, who is representing Hernandez and his fiancé, Cindy, held a news conference on Wednesday, stating that as far as he knows, his client has never been involved in any gang, as ICE alleged the day before.
Kolasinski did acknowledge that Hernandez was charged – and then acquitted – of murder in El Salvador, which he obtained court documents for and shared with reporters.
Hernandez was the only person acquitted of murder in that case, and therefore, there could be no way there could have been a warrant out for his arrest, his lawyer said.
The documents also refer to the 36-year-old Hernandez by his nickname of "El Pana," which show his acquittal came in 2019, the same year he came to the United States. The word used in the document is "absuelto."
"So if he was released after being acquitted with no other holds on him, he cannot have a warrant," Kolasinski said. "So that information must be either erroneous or completely made up, and only DHS knows what they're looking at."
