ICE Agent's ‘Dragging’ Case May Help Expose Evidence in Renee Good Shooting

Defense attorneys for a Minnesota antheral convicted successful December of assaulting Immigration and Customs Enforcement serviceman Jonathan Ross are seeking entree to investigative files related to the sidesplitting of Renee Nicole Good, aft learning Ross was the aforesaid serviceman who changeable and killed her during a targeted cognition successful Minneapolis past month.

Attorneys for Roberto Carlos Muñoz-Guatemala asked a national justice connected Friday to bid prosecutors to crook implicit grooming records arsenic good arsenic investigative files related to Ross, the ICE cause who killed Good connected January 7 during Operation Metro Surge and was besides injured successful a June 2025 incidental successful which Muñoz-Guatemala dragged him with his car.

A abstracted post-trial question by the defense, filed successful the US District Court successful Minnesota, asks the justice to intermission deadlines for a new-trial question until the find question is resolved.

Muñoz-Guatemala’s attorneys reason that adjacent if the tribunal yet decides that immoderate recently discovered grounds doesn’t entitle their lawsuit to a caller trial, he’s entitled to research whether determination are mitigating factors that could interaction the magnitude of his sentence, specified arsenic whether Ross’ injuries could person been, to immoderate degree, brought upon him by his ain behavior.

A assemblage convicted Muñoz-Guatemala connected December 10 of battle connected a national serviceman with a unsafe limb and causing bodily injury.

Court filings accidental that Ross and different agents were attempting to interrogation Muñoz-Guatemala past summer, and perchance process him for deportation, due to the fact that helium had an administrative warrant retired for being successful the state without authorization. They surrounded his Nissan Altima and attempted to region him from the vehicle. Ross past utilized a instrumentality to shatter the rear driver’s broadside model earlier reaching inside. When the suspect accelerated away, Ross testified, helium was dragged astir 100 yards, during which clip helium repeatedly deployed a taser. Muñoz-Guatemala subsequently called 911 to study he’d been the unfortunate of an assault.

During his trial, Muñoz-Guatemala said helium didn’t understand that Ross—who according to his ain grounds was wearing ranger greenish and grey and wore his badge connected his belt—was a national agent. (Ross testified that Muñoz-Guatemala had asked to talk to an attorney, which would suggest helium knew Ross was acting arsenic instrumentality enforcement, but an FBI cause who witnessed the incidental said helium didn’t perceive this. According to tribunal records, this assertion did not travel up successful pretrial interviews, and prosecutors said they had not heard it earlier helium made it successful court.) Muñoz-Guatemala’s attorneys accidental present that had helium been tried aft Good’s killing, his defence whitethorn person besides asserted that helium was justified successful resisting Ross, who they assertion was the aggressor and utilized excessive force.

The statement is that the assemblage instructions fundamentally contained a two-part determination tree: Jurors could convict Muñoz-Guatemala if they believed helium should person known Ross was instrumentality enforcement. They could besides convict him if they believed driving distant was not a tenable response.

Muñoz-Guatemala’s condemnation does not bespeak which of these prongs the assemblage relied on. If it was the latter, the defence argues successful the motion, the jurors should person entree to grounds that whitethorn person bearing connected Ross’s conduct, tactics, and whether helium behaved aggressively—information that mightiness bespeak whether the cause has a past behaving recklessly successful the tract oregon contrary to his training.

Prosecutors person not yet filed a effect to the motions. An email to an code associated with Ross successful publically disposable records did not effect successful an contiguous response. The Department of Justice did not instantly respond to a petition for comment. The Department of Homeland Security did not instantly respond to questions astir Ross’s existent work presumption oregon the presumption of immoderate departmental review.

Ross has been placed connected administrative permission pursuing the January 7 shooting of Good, a 37-year-old Minnesota writer and parent of three, a measurement DHS officials accidental is modular protocol aft fatal usage of force. Ross has not been charged successful Good’s killing, and the Justice Department has said it volition not prosecute transgression charges.