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The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund has launched an online petition asking for signatures urging the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the death of Luis Eduardo Ramirez Zavala and bring federal charges against the defendants who were acquitted on most county charges Friday.
“There’s a strong federal interest in eradicating the bias that motivated the violence and a fed prosecution is definitely in the public interest,” MALDEF staff attorney Gladys Limon said in a telephone interview Tuesday.
Two Shenandoah area teens were found not guilty of the most serious charges facing them in relation to the death of illegal Mexican immigrant Ramirez, 25, who died July 14, 2008, from injuries suffered in a beating two days earlier.
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