These past many months, I have written about the multiple attacks Donald Trump and his cohorts have waged against so many of the institutions upon which we rely. They have hollowed out the very agencies that serve vast numbers of the public: They have used Elon Musk’s DOGE to fire those we need to process claims for Social Security, to care for our veterans, to process our taxes and prevent fraud, to protect federal workers from unjust dismissal, to prosecute conflicts of interest in government, to educate our children and university students, to protect the environment and our public health. In the process, they have done away with park rangers and cancer researchers.
Just as importantly, they are determined to do away with the bedrock principles that underlie our democracy: due process and the presumption of innocence. For Truskmumpians, the Constitution is vastly inconvenient and a waste of time—the amendments in particular. It hasn’t taken MAGA long to decide that the First Amendment is basically just an excuse for those they call the legacy media and their leftist critics to lie or, even worse, tell the truth about Donald Trump and Elon Musk. And to demonstrate their grievances:
While the Second Amendment is the very best of them, especially since Antonin Scalia rewrote it to allow anyone to bear all kinds of arms in pretty much any situation, there remain some other troubling amendments. The Fourth, for example:
Warrants are a big problem. Because Presidential Advisor Stephen Miller, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem, and especially Donald Trump already know who is bad. I mean didn’t Donald Trump tell us he knew the Central Park Five were guilty? And no way was he going to be hoodwinked by those DNA tests that said it wasn’t them. Like he always knew Barack Obama wasn’t born here. As for the Fourth Amendment’s insistence on probable cause supported by oaths and affirmations, well, MAGA says just take a look at those illegals. Of course, they are the folks you need to lock up.
Then you have the Fifth Amendment:
Coming up with an indictment, convening a Grand Jury, that just takes too much time. Especially when we are fighting the war against Venezuela. And, surprise, surprise, Donald Trump won’t trust a jury or those left-wing radical judges. So if you occasionally deprive a probable criminal of their life and their liberty, that has to be better than wasting time on that inconvenient due process?
So, you can surely add the ridiculous Sixth Amendment:
It is almost as if those Founders didn’t understand what it is like to fight a war. Because, the Sixth insists on a bunch of really tiresome requirements like the right to a speedy trial before an impartial jury, giving notice of the charges, and the right to an attorney. Well, if the Founders didn’t get it, Pam Bondi certainly does. She knows Donald Trump needs to get rid of as many of the gang-infested migrants as quickly as possible. He and Elon Musk have work to do at Mar-a-Lago.
I would be remiss if I didn’t include that pesky 14th Amendment:
This, the birthright amendment, is the one President Trump had to rewrite on January 20, 2025, with his executive order “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.” Because the folks who wrote about those born in the United States being citizens didn’t really mean being born in the United States. What they meant to say was that if your mother isn’t a citizen, well, then the kids can’t be.
Donald Trump has told his Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Department of Justice (DOJ) to cut to the chase. The migrants are guilty until proven innocent. And there is just no time or interest in proving them innocent.
Onto Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man MAGA has made the perfect case for their guilty-as-charged policy, the poster boy for those they have picked up without warning or due process and shipped to El Salvador. Americans have been taught to despise him. He is, according to the story they tell over and over again, a former gang member and a wife beater—the perfect guy to ship to El Salvador’s despicable prison.
The stakes are high for the Trump administration. The more the focus is on criminal MS-13 gang members, the less it is on the tanking economy and the soaring price of eggs. The more Donald Trump’s popularity plummets, the more we will hear about illegal immigrants. Forget his nonsensical tariffs, his threats to make Canada a state, to take Panama and Greenland, and his determination to reward the one percent with yet another round of massive tax breaks and the cuts to Medicare, we have ICE raids and the arrests of liberal judges.
But Judge Paula Xinis offered an empathetic version of Abrego Garcia’s journey to America in Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia V. Kristi Noem in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland:
Abrego Garcia was born and raised in Los Nogales, El Salvador … His family owned a small and successful pupuseria …. For years, they were subject to extortion and threats of death by one of El Salvador’s most notorious gangs … The gang used Abrego Garcia as a pawn in its extortion, demanding that his mother give Abrego Garcia over to the gang or he and others in their family would be killed … Attempting to escape the gang’s reach, the family moved three times without success … To protect Abrego Garcia, they ultimately sent him to the United States to live with his older brother, a U.S. citizen, in Maryland …
Abrego Garcia lived in Maryland for many years without lawful status … In early 2019, while waiting at the Home Depot in Hyattsville, Maryland, to be hired as a day laborer, Abrego Garcia was arrested … The Prince George’s County Police Department questioned him about gang affiliation, but nothing came of it … He was then turned over to ICE custody…. On March 29, 2019, DHS initiated removal proceedings against Abrego Garcia pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(6)(A)(i) … On April 24, 2019, Abrego Garcia appeared before an immigration judge (‘IJ’) where he conceded his deportability and applied for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture …
Pending resolution of the requested relief, DHS argued for Abrego Garcia to be detained in ICE custody … DHS relied principally on a singular unsubstantiated allegation that Abrego Garcia was a member of MS-13. The IJ ultimately detained Abrego Garcia pending the outcome of his requested relief from deportation, a decision affirmed by the Board of Immigration Appeals …. October 10, 2019, following a full evidentiary hearing, the IJ granted Abrego Garcia withholding of removal to El Salvador pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1231(b)(3)(A). As a matter of law, withholding of removal prohibits DHS from returning an alien to the specific country in which he faces clear probability of persecution. In Abrego Garcia’s case, the IJ concluded that he was entitled to such protection because the Barrio 18 gang had been ‘targeting him and threatening him with death because of his family’s pupusa business … DHS never appealed the grant of withholding of removal, and so the decision became final on November 9 … (Mr. Reuveni: ‘The government did not appeal that decision, so it is final.’). Accordingly, as Defendants have repeatedly admitted, they were legally prohibited from deporting Abrego Garcia to El Salvador … Apr. 4, 2025, 25:6–7 (Mr. Reuveni: ‘There’s no dispute that the order could not be used to send Mr. Abrego Garcia to El Salvador.’).
For the next six years, Abrego Garcia lived in Maryland with his wife and their three children … He complied fully with all directives from ICE, including annual check-ins, and has never been charged with or convicted of any crime …. On March 12, 2025, while driving home from work with his young son in the car, Abrego Garcia was stopped by ICE agents … The officers had no warrant for his arrest and no lawful basis to take him into custody; they told him only that his ‘status had changed.’ … He was first transported to an ICE facility in Baltimore, Maryland … Next, ICE agents shuttled him to detention facilities in Louisiana and La Villa, Texas… He was allowed a handful of calls to his wife. He said that he was told he would see a judge soon … But that never happened.
Three days later, on March 15, 2025, without any notice, legal process, or hearing, ICE forcibly transported Abrego Garcia to the Terrorism Confinement Center (‘CECOT’) in El Salvador, a notorious supermax prison known for widespread human rights violations.
[Emphasis added.]
Most importantly, Judge Paula Xinis notes:
The ‘evidence’ against Abrego Garcia consisted of nothing more than his Chicago Bulls hat and hoodie, and a vague, uncorroborated allegation from a confidential informant claiming he belonged to MS-13’s ‘Western’ clique in New York — a place he has never lived. ECF No. 31.
All of which prompted Judge Xinis to order the United States government to return Abrego Garcia from El Salvador to the United States:
Pam Bondi was outraged by Judge Xinis’ order. First, as Politico reported, she placed Erez Reuveni, the DOJ lawyer who argued the case before Judge Xinis, on leave. Reuveni, unfortunately, had told the truth and conceded that since Abgrego Garcia had a valid withholding of removal order in place, he should not have been picked up by ICE, and certainly not deported to El Salvador. Bondi immediately appealed to the Fourth Circuit emphasizing that Abrego Garcia is a member of MS-13 and claiming that, since he is now residing in the sovereign nation of El Salvador, the United States no longer has any “independent authority” to return him:
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit almost immediately denied Bondi’s motion. Judge Thacker wrote:
The panel unanimously agrees that the district court’s order requiring the Government ‘to facilitate and effectuate the return of Plaintiff Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States by no later than 11:59 PM on Monday, April 7, 2025,’ should not be stayed. The Government’s motion to stay is, therefore, denied. I write to explain my view.
The United States Government has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in the United States off the street and remove him from the country without due process. The Government’s contention otherwise, and its argument that the federal courts are powerless to intervene, are unconscionable …
As such, the Attorney General’s decision to remove Abrego Garcia to El Salvador was not one that was within her lawful discretion. The removal was not the enforcement of a valid order of removal. Instead, it was plainly in violation of § 1231(b)(3)(A). …
Critically, what the Government fails to acknowledge is that just as it is the province of the Executive to undertake its Constitutional duties within the bounds of its legitimate authority, so too is it ‘the province and duty of the judicial department to determine in cases regularly brought before them, whether the powers of any branch of the government . . . have been exercised in conformity to the Constitution; and if they have not, to treat their acts as null and void.’ Powell v. McCormack, 395 U.S. 486, 506 (1969) …
The Government’s claim that it can remove an individual from the United States pursuant to such an agreement and thereby lose the ability to reclaim that individual and return him to the country for process (or for any other purpose) cannot stand. The Government’s actions in this case most assuredly violated the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. The Government cannot escape its responsibility to return Abrego Garcia to the United States by claiming it now lacks authority to control El Salvador …
Indeed, ‘[a] world in which federal courts lacked the power to order the government to take every possible step to bring back to the United States individuals like Abrego Garcia is a world in which the government could send any of us to a Salvadoran prison without due process, claim that the misstep was a result of “administrative error,” and thereby wash its hands of any responsibility for what happens next.” Steve Vladeck, Abrego Garcia, Constructive Custody, and Federal Judicial Power (Apr. 5, 2025), https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/138-abrego-garcia-constructive-custody …
[Emphasis added.]
Once again, the Trump administration challenged Judge Xinis’ order to return Garcia from El Salvador. But to their surprise, on April 10, 2025, the United States Supreme Court issued the following decision:
The order properly requires the Government to ‘facilitate’ Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador. The intended scope of the term “effectuate” in the District Court’s order is, however, unclear, and may exceed the District Court’s authority. The District Court should clarify its directive, with due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs. For its part, the Government should be prepared to share what it can concerning the steps it has taken and the prospect of further steps. The order heretofore entered by THE CHIEF JUSTICE is vacated.
So the Supreme Court sent the case back asking Judge Xinis to clarify what she meant by “facilitate” and to ensure that her decision didn’t intrude upon the executive branch’s foreign policy responsibilities. Judge Xinis quickly reframed her order:
Thwarted by the courts, the Trump administration began a public relations campaign highlighting the increased threats posed by illegal immigrants with a renewed focus on Abrego Garcia. Which is why the DHS offered “THE REAL STORY: Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an MS-13 Gang member with a History of Violence.”
This prompted USA Today to analyze the DHS’s evidence:
USA Today writes:
A now-fired Maryland police officer authored the 2019 gang report that the government referenced when it mistakenly sent a Maryland father to a notorious prison in El Salvador, documents obtained by USA TODAY show. A copy of the pivotal gang report, released by Attorney General Pam Bondi on April 16 shields the name of the Prince George’s County, Maryland, police officer. But another, unredacted copy provided by attorneys for the imprisoned man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, show it was written by Ivan Mendez.
[Emphasis added.]
This excerpt highlights the testimony of an unnamed confidential informant who verified Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s gang affiliation:
USA Today continues:
Just days after the March 2019 encounter at a Home Depot in Hyattsville where Abrego Garcia was flagged as a potential MS-13 gang member, Mendez was suspended from the force. Court records show he was then indicted in June 2020 for misconduct in office. Court records allege he shared ‘sensitive and confidential information about an ongoing police investigation with a commercial sex worker.’
Millions of Chicago Bulls fans—thanks to Michael Jordan—will be thrilled to learn that wearing their beloved might prompt ICE to suspect some serious sympathy for MS-13, and possibly make it more likely that Bulls lovers will be visiting El Salvador.
In its feature “The Story of the ‘Mistakenly Deported Maryland Man,” The New York Times adds this about the DHS report:
Mr. Abrego Garcia admitted to being in the United States without proper documentation, but fiercely denied gang membership; indeed, he had no record beyond several traffic infractions. What’s more, MS-13’s Westerns clique operates from the Long Island town of Brentwood, but his lawyers would later say he had never lived in New York State. As for the sweatshirt, which depicted rolls of money and the face of Benjamin Franklin — not presidents, as the police report said — Ms. Vasquez would later say she bought it for her boyfriend after seeing the design on Fashion Nova, a clothing website … [and] the report indicated that Mr. Abrego Garcia was being detained in connection with a murder investigation — a reference made nowhere else and never again …
Still, the attacks on Garcia continued. Here is a DHS tweet on the wife-beating charge:
But as fact-checking Snopes reports, Garcia’s wife offers a very different view:
Snopes writes:
Jennifer Vasquez Sura sought a temporary civil protective order against Kilmar Abrego Garcia in 2021 for alleged abuse, but she did not show up to a court hearing, which stopped the matter from proceeding.” Snopes offers excerpts from a statement from Sura: “After surviving domestic violence in a previous relationship, I acted out of caution after a disagreement with Kilmar by seeking a civil protective order in case things escalated. Things did not escalate, and I decided not to follow through with the civil court process. We were able to work through this situation privately as a family, including by going to counseling. Our marriage only grew stronger in the years that followed. No one is perfect, and no marriage is perfect. That is not a justification for ICE’s action of abducting him and deporting him to a country where he was supposed to be protected from deportation. Kilmar has always been a loving partner and father, and I will continue to stand by him and demand justice for him.
Garcia has always insisted he is innocent:
The respondent argues that the Immigration Judge clearly erred in determining that he is a verified member of MS-13 because there is no reliable evidence in the record to support such a finding (Respondent’s Br. at 6-9). In this regard, the respondent asserts that a Prince George’s County Police Department Gang Field Interview Sheet (“GFIS”) is based on hearsay relayed by a confidential source (Exh. 4). The respondent also claims that he presented sufficient evidence to rebut the allegation that he is affiliated with MS-13, including character references and criminal records showing that he has only been charged with traffic offenses. Therefore, the respondent contends that the Immigration Judge erroneously ruled that he did not show that he is not a danger to the community (Respondent’s Br. at 9-10).
Even as large numbers of Americans continue to be skeptical of the government’s claim, Donald Trump released several images he claimed proved Garcia’s guilt:
But several reputable news outlets, including CBS News, quickly questioned the authenticity of the image:
Layla Ferris writes:
Mr. Trump again shared a photo of Abrego Garcia’s left hand on social media, alleging he ‘had “MS-13” tattooed onto his knuckles.’ The image shows the characters ‘M,’ ‘S,’ ‘1’ and ‘3’ digitally added above Abrego Garcia’s existing tattoos — a leaf, a smiley face, a cross and a skull — along with labels describing each symbol beneath. Many people online recognized the labels as digitally added, but some alleged they were designed to appear as part of Abrego Garcia’s actual tattoos and accused the Trump administration of trying to mislead the public. The White House has not responded to multiple requests for comment about the image and who added the labels …
Next the administration claimed that since President Trump had invoked the Alien Enemies Act, and Garcia was clearly an MS-13 member, any previous determination that he couldn’t be removed to El Salvador was no longer valid. Then, with the help of El Salvadoran President Bukele, they reaffirmed that Garcia was no longer under their control.
But on April 17, 2025, taking its lead from the Supreme Court, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals once again unanimously sided with Judge Xinis and rejected the government’s emergency motion:
WILKINSON, Circuit Judge, with whom KING and THACKER, Circuit Judges, join: Upon review of the government’s motion, the court denies the motion for an emergency stay pending appeal and for a writ of mandamus. The relief the government is requesting is both extraordinary and premature. While we fully respect the Executive’s robust assertion of its Article II powers, we shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court’s recent decision.
They emphasized that the decision of the Supreme Court couldn’t be clearer:
The order properly requires the Government to ‘facilitate’ Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador.
But that didn’t stop several members of the Trump administration and the president himself from distorting the clear directives from several courts. Here is how the highly conservative journal The National Review put it:
They National Review writes:
We’re all used to implausible spins by White House officials. But White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller has stooped to a new level. An appallingly low one. And he has done so in the disservice of spurring the White House to defy a Supreme Court ruling … The Court ruled unanimously that the district-court order ‘properly requires the Government to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador.’ … It tells the district court to ‘clarify its directive, with due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs.’ It also states that ‘the Government should be prepared to share what it can concerning the steps it has taken and the prospect of further steps.’
This isn’t complicated stuff … The Trump administration lost unanimously … In President Trump’s meeting in the Oval Office on Monday with El Salvador president Nayib Bukele, here’s how Miller absurdly summarized the Supreme Court’s ruling four days earlier in Noem v. Abrego Garcia: … The Supreme Court said the district-court order was unlawful and its main components were reversed 9-0, unanimously…. The ruling solely stated that if this individual, at El Salvador’s sole discretion, were sent back to our country, that we could deport him a second time.
So, The National Review states clearly:
The Court did not say that the district-court order was unlawful. On the contrary, it left that order in effect, with a request for clarification on effectuate … The ruling states that the district-court order ‘properly requires the Government to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador.
Now we wait for Judge Xinis to bring those responsible for deporting Abrego Garcia’s to her courtroom to explain and testify: Who said and did what, and who isn’t complying with the Supreme Court’s order to return Abrego Garica to the United States?
Meanwhile, the president of the United States pretends he doesn’t really know what is happening. Because he hasn’t read the Supreme Court decision, he doesn’t know what is required of his administration. It is all about his lawyers.
Here is what he said to ABC News on April 29, 2025:
TERRY MORAN: Alright. Well, let me ask about one man and one court order. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He’s the Salvadoran man who crossed into this country illegally but who is under a protective order that he not be sent back to El Salvador. Your government sent him back to El Salvador and acknowledged in court that was a mistake. And now the Supreme Court has upheld an order that you must return him to the—facilitate his return to the United States. What are you doing to comply?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, the lawyer that said it was a mistake was here a long time, was not appointed by us—should not have said that, should not have said that. And just so you understand … the person that you’re talkin’ about, you know, you’re makin’ this person sound—this is a MS-13 gang member, a tough cookie, been in lots of skirmishes, beat the hell out of his wife, and the wife was petrified to even talk about him, okay? This is not an innocent, wonderful gentleman from Maryland—
TERRY MORAN: I’m not saying he’s a good guy. It’s about the rule of law. The order from the Supreme Court stands, sir—
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: He came into our country illegally.
TERRY MORAN: You could get him back. There’s a phone on this desk.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I could.
TERRY MORAN: You could pick it up, and with all—
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I could.
TERRY MORAN: —the power of the presidency, you could call up the president of El Salvador and say, “Send him back,” right now.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: And if he were the gentleman that you say he is, I would do that.
TERRY MORAN: But the court has ordered you—
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: But he’s not.
TERRY MORAN: —to facilitate that—his release—
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I’m not the one making this decision. We have lawyers that don’t want—
TERRY MORAN: You’re the president.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: —to do this, Terry—
TERRY MORAN: Yeah, but the—but the buck stops in this office—
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I—no, no, no, no. I follow the law. You want me to follow the law. If I were the president that just wanted to do anything, I’d probably keep him right where he is—
TERRY MORAN: The Supreme Court says what the law is.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Listen. I was elected to take care of a problem that was—it was—a, a unforced error that was made by a very incompetent man, a man that turned out to be incompetent that you always said was wonderful, a great genius, right? And now you find out—all of the media, now they’re saying what a mistake they made. A man who was grossly incompetent allowed us to have open borders where millions of people flowed in … I campaigned on that issue. I’ve done an amazing job. I have closed borders. He said you couldn’t do it, you wouldn’t be able to do it, it would never happen. Well, it happened. And it happened … When we have criminals, murderers, criminals in this country, we have to get ’em out. And we’re doing it.
TERRY MORAN: By law—
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: And you’ll pick out one man, but even the man that you picked out … he said he’d—wasn’t a member of a gang. And then they looked, and … On his knuckles—he had MS-13—
TERRY MORAN: Alright. There’s dis—there’s a dispute over that … he had some tattoos that are inper—interpreted that way. But let’s move on.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Wait a minute.
TERRY MORAN: I want—
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Hey, Terry. Terry. Terry.
TERRY MORAN: He—he did not have the letter—
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Don’t do that—M-S-1-3—It says M-S-one-three.
TERRY MORAN: I—that was Photoshop. So let me just—
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: That was Photoshop? Terry, you can’t do that—he had—he—hey, they’re givin’ you the big break of a lifetime. You know, you’re doin’ the interview. I picked you because—frankly I never heard of you, but that’s OK … but you’re not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed—
TERRY MORAN: Alright. Alright. We’ll agree to disagree. I want to move on—
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Terry.
TERRY MORAN: —to something else.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Terry. Do you want me to show the picture?
TERRY MORAN: I saw the picture. We’ll—we’ll—we’ll agree to disagree—
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Oh, and you think it was Photoshop. Well—
TERRY MORAN: Here we go. Here we go.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: —don’t Photoshop it. Go look—
TERRY MORAN: Alright.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: —at his hand. He had MS-13—
TERRY MORAN: Fair enough, he did have tattoos that can be interpreted that way. I’m not an expert on them …
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Terry, no, no. No, no. He had MS as clear as you can be. Not ‘interpreted.’ This is why people—
TERRY MORAN: Alright.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: —no longer believe—
TERRY MORAN: Well.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: —the news, because it’s fake news—
TERRY MORAN: When he was photographed in El Sal—in—in El Salvador, they aren’t there. But let’s just go on …
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: He’s got MS-13 on his knuckles.
TERRY MORAN: Alright. I—
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: OK?
TERRY MORAN: —we’ll—we’ll take a look at it—
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: It’s—it’s—you do such a disservice —
TERRY MORAN: We’ll take a look. We’ll take a look at that, sir—
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Why don’t you just say, ‘Yes, he does,’ and, you know, go on to something else—
Donald Trump believes Abrego Garcia is guilty. And I don’t imagine he is interested in any evidence that will demonstrate his innocence. It is pretty clear why Donald Trump hasn’t read the Supreme Court decision—and probably hasn’t read the Constitution. I am guessing he won’t be reading it soon. This is the man to whom the Supreme Court has granted immunity. There has been much talk about a looming Constitutional crisis. Well, the looming is over. And Abrego Garcia still sits in a Salvadoran hellhole. Guilty until proven innocent.
