She asked them why they came to their verdicts, then the prosecutors added misdemeanor charges for the second trial, the judge decided she would issue the verdicts for them, the prosecution hired a jury consultant at taxpayer expense and during the trial, the judge would not allow numerous defense witnesses to testify.
US Attorney Billy Williams of Oregon, not on the list new AG Jeff Sessions asked to resign yesterday, claimed he was not prosecuting the defendants for their beliefs and made some comments praising the rural way of life.
It appears he has the blessing of the Trump Administration and activist Gavin Seim took it further when he flat out said in a video yesterday.."this malicious prosecution against these final four was brought by the Donald Trump Administration, not the Obama Administration."
Meanwhile, the office of the Oregon US Attorney wants an arrest warrant for blogger Gary Hunt who outed FBI informants in the case on his "Outpost of Freedom" blog.
Judge Brown is taking the request under advisement.
bkmk
This same kind of judicial misconduct permeates our judicial system. We need some “judicial rye toast” and a very good judicial “BM”. In other words, clean the out the system.
That shocks me.
This guy is an Obama gang enforcer.
So Trump now owns this. And that's NOT good. The people who elected him are the people egging this anti-property FedGov socialist US attorney's office on.
Sell off all federal land in the West. Turn the BLM into an advisory agency or just close it.
Return the West to the Americans.
The seven women and five men deliberated for two and a half days after a 10-day trial that proved much less dramatic than the first trial last fall when takeover leader Ammon Bundy and six other key occupiers won acquittals.
But this one had its moments.
Patrick, who said it’s turkey-hunting season where he lives in Georgia, made turkey calls in the courtroom before the judge and jury entered to announce the verdicts, prompting a deputy U.S. marshal to tell him to cut it out.
“So, who’s getting Tased?” blurted Matthew Schindler, a defense lawyer from the first trial who sat in the back of the courtroom, referencing the bizarre end to last fall’s trial when marshals tackled and used a Taser stun gun on Ammon Bundy’s lawyer.
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These “patriots” should behave better.
Stinking nest of left wing sobs. BLM needs to go.
Stinking nest of left wing sobs. BLM needs to go.
Justice was not served here.
Justice would be these folks getting a bill for the time they slept in a firefighter shack on government land.
The death of Lavoy Finicum isn’t remotely close to justice. There should be murder charges and a trial in that exchange.
To me, up until now, the Trump administration was/is like a brand new shiny car that just rolled off the showroom floor with no “dings” anywhere.
Now, it’s got one. Namely, allowing this Leftist prosecution to go forward while doing absolutely nothing about the murder of Lavoy Finicum when “doing nothing, is, in effect, participating in a cover up.
I spoke without reading this post. So Williams was not fired. Maybe he soon will be.
Why is this on Trump? All was done on Obama’s watch, except the verdict.
Very disappointed but not surprising. The worship at the altar of government power has had a stronghold among some conservatives, leftists and big government supporters for a long time in this country.
We are really having trouble holding government agencies, that were laughing created to serve the public, accountable to any close to the accountability required for the average citizen-subject.
It’s too bad that we will have to wait until Eternity for these truly evil and malicious government people to receive their judgement.