Posted on 04/26/2017 4:03:57 AM PDT by Nextrush
A federal jury's failure to reach a unanimous verdict on 50 of the 60 counts in the first Bunkerville standoff case--and the mistrial that resulted--has spurred a flurry of concerns about speedy-trial rights among others accused of conspiring with rancher Cliven Bundy.
Eleven people still await trial on charges that they organized a mass assault on federal agents who tried to seize Bundy's cattle from public land in April 2014.
The first trial ended Monday when U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro declared a mistrial and set a new trial date of June 26. Jurors convicted two of the first six defendants on some of the counts... new trial date coincides with the previously scheduled start date for the second group of defendants: Cliven, Ammon and Ryan Bundy, Ryan Payne and Pete Santilli.
... What happens next? Federal prosecutors still have not decided whether to retry the defendants. Taxpayers already have been saddled with significant costs, which only will balloon in a repeat trial. And the remaining 11 defendants who have been in prison for over a year, do not want to wait any longer for their day in court.
That is why some defense attorneys who represent the second group of defendants....are hoping that if prosecutors decide to retry any or all of the men in the first group, they will do so by combining them with second group......
The Bundy brothers awaiting trial are growing impatient, and they have been causing a stir at the federal facility where they are housed.
"Ryan and Ammon Bundy refused to follow facility rules by refusing to submit to a strip search and put on handcuffs prior to leaving segregation for movement to the lawyer visitation room. As a result, they were not transported to the interview room," a recent court filing said......
(Excerpt) Read more at reviewjournal.com ...
When will the new Attorney General who oversees this operation in Las Vegas (the Obama US Attorney has resigned and left) appointed by Donald J. Trump, Jeff Sessions, tell the Acting US Attorney Steven Myhre to stop prosecuting and persecuting these people and move on.
There are more than a dozen in jail in Nevada, including Jerry DeLemus. Jerry was at Bunkerville in April 2014 and in early 2016, the co-chair of Veterans for Trump during the New Hampshire Primary.
Jerry is caught in limbo after withdrawing a guilty plea he made earlier.
When does this man who supported President Trump get help from the Trump Administration's Justice Department?
When JFK was 115 days into his presidency Dr. Martin Luther King and others were knocking on the door of the Kennedy Administration for protection in Alabama from Klan inspired mobs on behalf of civil rights protestors.
The time for continued excuses is running out.
I seriously doubt charges will be dropped. Trump was not supportive of the Bundy’s and those taking up arms. There is no political upside for him to flip on this. Bet he’ll let all this run its course.
Apostrophes, FRiends. Apostrophes.
Sad commentary on the “justice system”.
We shall see.
LaVoy Finicum’s widow spoke in Texas last week, said she’s being followed around by the FBI and otherwise harassed with the FBI demonizing her through contacting local police and local government officials in communities she visits.
But she also said we need to “get to Trump” and ask him to take action to free people in jails like the Hammonds held on mandatory terrorism sentences of five years for lighting a backfire to protect their land. That sentence caused LaVoy to join Ammon Bundy in the Oregon Standoff protest.
She mentioned others like Joe Robertson, a 77 year old man in Montana jailed for creating a pond on his own land in violation of EPA regulations. Someone else Donald Trump should help set free.
Yep.
But she also said we need to “get to Trump” and ask him to take action
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There are big issues and there are small issues and there are issues that resonate... Trump would do well to have a small task force charged with identifying and putting out fires like this... it would cement his standing against the swamp.
seem to recall the Federal agents at the Bunkerville? standoff were armed? Even had Federal snipers with ‘Assault weapons” on the overpass? Is it now OK in America to have a totalitarian Government bearing arms against the people yet the slaves banned from that palladium of our liberties—shades of the black laws I thought were done away with long ago.
You haven’t lived until you have been followed and harassed by government thugs.
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