Posted on 08/23/2017 3:16:06 PM PDT by Nextrush
Eric Parker and Scott Drexler to be tried on charges where the jury was hung in the second trial.
When the jury came down 'not guilty' on 34 of 40 charges for the defendants at the second Bunkerville Standoff trial. Rick Lovelien and Steven Stewart walked free found not guilty on all charges after spending 18 months in prison without bail.
Eric Parker and Scott Drexler were released to a halfway house last night with not guilty verdicts on most of their charges and jury hung on some (four for Parker, two for Drexler).
Today at a detention hearing in Las Vegas an animated and angered Acting US Attorney Steven Myhre, the lead prosecutor in the case, insisted the men were dangerous and a threat and should remain in custody.
But the judge (US District Judge Gloria Navarro) decided after juries failed to convict the men at their first two trials, they will be allowed to go free ahead of the third trial.
With conditions for their release, Parker and Drexler are expected to be freed and allowed to return to their homes in Idaho.
The planned date for their third trial is September 25th.
This means plans to try the key defendants in the April 12, 2014 standoff near Bundy Ranch like members of the Bundy Family (Cliven, Ammon, Ryan and others) will be pushed further back as they remain locked up without bail.
And just in case you don't know the Attorney General of the United States, Jeff Sessions, praised this prosecutor who is Acting US Attorney in Vegas after the Obama one was removed for 'standing up and defending the office and the principles of the law' in the case OMG.
Steven Myhre would not let the defendants use the First and Second Amendments in their defense, had defendant Eric Parker removed from the stand as he testified in his own defense right in front of a shocked jury and even wanted the defense lawyers closing arguments submitted to the judge for review before they could be made.
The list goes on and on regarding Myhre......
Cases like this confuse me because you have the federal government losing it’s shit over citizens making a claim on federal lands, but you have extra-national entities that cities are giving defacto property and citizen’s rights too and they look the other way....
WHAT THE HELL!
If you want to “enforce the rule of law” start with the extra-national people FIRST and then once that is done re-visit the cases like the bundy’s but not BEFORE
I thought it was two hung juries and you are free. Are these charges that weren’t prosecuted the first time?
“Steven Myhre would not let the defendants use the First and Second Amendments in their defense”
That’s a slap in the face to every concept of justice and of American tradition.
A prosecutor or a judge deciding what arguments you may not use in defending yourself.
JURY NULLIFICATION!!!!
Trump please issue PARDONS.
This legal vendetta to support Obama DOJ abuses is NOT MAGA!
Never give up. Hope they do same with Antifa.
Fire the acting US attorney.
Same charges with mistrial used by judge in second trial after jury was split down the middle on all charges.
Troll.
So much for Trump being the law and order candidate.
Never be a pardon once they are convicted. They stand for everything Trump is opposed to, and has spoken out against. Bundy and Hammond are criminals and shame on these folks going armed to defend them. Just as guilty.
No Double Jeopardy?
“Troll”? Seriously, that is you best reasoned response? Wow. How about something more relevant? Bundy’s are admitted thieves, Hammonds are admitted poachers. How do you, if you are patriotic and conservative American, justify their actions AND those of people coming armed to their defense? This is armed gangs. No different than Antifa, Black Panthers, and others using violence and intimidation. No loyal American of any political bent should support them. They rejected US, took up arms and threatened to use them against law enforcement. You seriously support and defending killing our law enforcement? They admitted sighting officers, that is one trigger pull from a dead officer. Defend that please.
Thank god there wont be a jury full of you. We only need one person to stand their ground and to vote not guilty.
They wont be convicted sport.
Wow, you’re a statist, Harry Reid type I’d say. I guess you idolize the prosecutor and corrupt judge carrying out this persecution. Or maybe you’re simply not knowledgeable about the case & issues involved?
You sound like a fascist criminal opposed to personal liberty and in favor of jack booted thugs.
The BLM showed up looking like soldiers in Afghanistan, not like managers of federal land. Screw em.
Go lick boots elsewhere.
The “officers” were in no danger unless they attacked first. They were there to steak cattle.
Gub mint stupidity?
Gub mint harassment?
“Fire the acting US attorney.”
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The gullible Sessions praised the involved prosecutors.
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