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Federal judge Gloria Navarro slammed the FBI and Justice Department on Monday, Jan. 8, for “outrageous” abuses and “flagrant misconduct” in the prosecution of Cliven Bundy and sons, the Nevada ranchers who spurred a high-profile standoff with the FBI and Bureau of Land Management in 2014. Navarro condemned the "grossly shocking” withholding of evidence from defense counsel in a case that could have landed the Bundys in prison for the rest of their lives. Navarro, who had declared a mistrial last month, dismissed all charges against the Bundys. Navarro was especially riled because the FBI spent three years covering up...

While Cliven Bundy, Ryan Bundy and Ammon Bundy are getting back to normal life as free men, a group of four men are on pre-trial release facing trial in connection with Bunkerville. Dave Bundy, Mel Bundy, Joe O'Shaugnessy and Jason Woods are set for trial on February 26th. US District Judge Gloria M. Navarro says with the evidence being out in the open now, the four are eligible for trial. But defendant Dave Bundy wants the prosecutors removed from the trial. His lawyer filed a motion Friday saying that the prosecutors in the case are potential witnesses in his trial....

"You don't understand what it's like unless you spend 700 days in one of their prisons. You don't find out until you stand up against the wall with your face towards that wall with your face towards that wall and you answer every question every one or they'll shove your face into that wall. That's how they treat people. That's how they treat 'We the People'. That's not how 'We the People' of America are going to be treated anymore....." Cliven Bundy talks about being a political prisoner in the USA at Bundy Ranch 1/9/2018 Cliven Bundy just described the...

....A judge Monday threw out criminal charges against Nevada cattleman Cliven Bundy, his two sons and a co-defendant in their 2014 standoff with federal agents, citing "flagrant misconduct" by prosecutors and the FBI in not disclosing evidence before and during trial. "The government's conduct in this case was indeed outrageous," said US District Judge Gloria M. Navarro. "There has been flagrant misconduct, substantial prejudice and no lesser remedy is sufficient." The judge issued her ruling before a packed courtroom with nearly 100 spectators inside and more than a dozen others waiting outside..... The dismissal with prejudice, meaning prosecutors can't seek...

"I'm not done fighting by any means" Cliven Bundy speaks as a free man at the federal courthouse in Las Vegas 1/8/2018 Today Cliven Bundy will be outside the office of Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo challenging him and other officials to back his stance that led to the Bunkerville Standoff in April 2014. Bundy says that state and local officials should back his right to graze cattle, use water and pay fees to Clark County instead of the federal government. Cliven Bundy says the governor of Nevada along with Clark County, Nevada officials aided and abetted the federal government's...

Unsealed court documents detail how the team of prosecutors tasked with convicting Cliven Bundy and his sons of crimes relating to a 2014 armed standoff failed to turn over potential exculpatory evidence to the court, The Oregonian reports. The Bundys’ case ended in a mistrial Dec. 20 after Judge Gloria Navarro ruled that prosecutors violated the civil rights of the defendants by withholding evidence supporting the Bundys’ case. Navarro is considering dismissing the case “with prejudice” and blocking prosecutors from retrying the case. Her decision will come Jan. 8, according to The New York Times. “There were approximately 3,000 pages...

In a July 5th email, Ryan Payne's lawyers asked prosecutors for copies of all threat assessments prepared before the April 2014 standoff between Cliven Bundy's supporters and federal officers attempting to impound the Bundy family cattle for years of failing to pay grazing fees and fines. Prosecutors handling the Nevada standoff case characterized defendants' continued push for threat assessments as another in their "long list of frivolous and vexatious pleadings." Prosecutor's didn't turn over the multiple threat assessments to Payne and his co-defendants, Nevada cattleman Cliven Bundy an his two sons, Ammon and Ryan Bundy, until the four were in...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions stepped into the Bundy prosecution after Wednesday’s mistrial, ordering a third-party examination of the case in light of the latest government snafu. “The attorney general takes this issue very seriously and has personally directed that an expert in the [Justice Department’s] discovery obligations be deployed to examine the case and advise as to the next steps,” said Ian D. Prior, the department’s principal deputy director of public affairs, in a late Wednesday statement. The decision to intervene came after Chief U.S. District Court Judge Gloria Navarro declared a mistrial over the government’s “willful failure to disclose...

A U.S. judge has declared a mistrial in the case against a Nevada rancher accused of leading a 2014 armed standoff with federal agents in a cattle grazing dispute. Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro dismissed the jury Wednesday and faulted prosecutors for what she called “constitutional due-process violations” and failing to properly turn over evidence to the defense. The decision in the case against Cliven Bundy, two of his sons and another man is the latest in a string of failed prosecutions in Nevada and Oregon against those who have opposed federal control of vast swaths of land in...

There's plenty of news coming out of Las Vegas about the home detention release of those currently on trial and still facing trial in the Bunkerville Standoff case, but Cliven Bundy has decided to stay behind bars noting that home detention is not freedom. His wife, Carol Bundy, spoke to the news media Friday afternoon outside the federal courthouse in Las Vegas as defendant Ryan Payne left the building going to his home detention. Here is an excerpt of what she had to say: "My family made a stand in 2014, made a peaceful protest and we exercised our First...

LAS VEGAS (FOX5/AP) - A federal judge in Las Vegas is expected to release Cliven Bundy, his two sons, and a co-defendant. Attorney Daniel Hill told FOX5 Ammon, Cliven and Ryan Bundy will be released. Hill said, "most I can comfortably say since it was a sealed hearing is an issue arose in relation to the defense motions to dismiss." He added, "the motions are taken under submission." Further details were not immediately released.

It was a surprise move in and of itself when US District Judge Gloria Navarro reversed herself on November 13th (one day before the trial began) and released Ryan Bundy from jail. But now word that Judge Navarro is releasing the other defendants Cliven Bundy, Ammon Bundy and Ryan Payne as well. Cliven Bundy and Ammon Bundy have been consistently wearing their jail clothing to court and perhaps that helped Judge Navarro make her decision to help influence the jury away from sympathy for the defendants.....

John Lamb reports that much of the morning was occupied with arguing over what was going to be allowed in court regarding water rights and other matters mentioned in the prosecution motion filed Sunday. Judge Navarro also heard arguments about the FBI threat assessment. After a four day buildup around the ranch (April 5-8, 2014) the bureau decided that the Bundy's did not pose a high threat. But the Bureau of Land Management considered the threat level "high". Navarro will limit statements from Cliven Bundy she considers "self serving"......

"Saying he was quoting Mark Twain, Whipple said: 'Alcohol is for drinking, water is for fighting' In Cliven Bundy's mind, 'he has a right to the range because he has used it for so long'"...... "Oregon Live" story published 11/14/2017 on opening arguments from Bret Whipple, Cliven Bundy's attorney "....Evidence and arguments of water rights could easily cause the jury to be influenced by the notion that Cliven possessed an ownership interest in the land because he may have possessed water rights on the land, and that he was wronged when ordered to remove his cattle. Indeed one juror presented...

LAS VEGAS-The federal conspiracy case against Nevada cattleman Cliven Bundy, his two sons and co-defendant Ryan Payne isn't about the right to protest or bear arms, beliefs about cattle, ranching or the government's role in managing public lands, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Instead, the long awaited trial centers around the simple need to respect the rule of law, Nevada's Acting U.S. Attorney Steven Myrhe told jurors. "It's about whether or not you're going to use force and violence to enforce your beliefs," Myhre said. "Are you going to be governed by law and order, or the end of a gun?"..........

When asked by the judge if he wanted a one-week delay, Cliven Bundy's short reply was offered. Defendant Ryan Bundy also opposed a trial delay, but added he would support one if the co-defendants were freed from jail like was to a halfway house yesterday. Prosecutors came into court seeking a one week delay while FBI emails from the weeks leading up to the standoff were sought out and reviewed. Defense attorneys for Ryan Payne and Ammon Bundy asked for a mistrial. Acting US Attorney Steven Myhre offered opening arguments in the morning, claiming that the government's behavior was not...

LAS VEGAS-A judge declined Thursday to release Nevada cattleman Cliven Bundy days before trial, concerned he doesn't recognize federal authority and has a large incentive to flee with at least 80 years in prison hanging over his head if convicted of four of his 16 charges. US District Judge Gloria M. Navarro also rejected release requests by Ryan Bundy and Ryan Payne and said she would make a decision later on Ammon Bundy. Bret O. Whipple, the attorney representing the elder Bundy on charges in the 2014 standoff near Bunkerville, urged consideration for the patriarch's age, his failing health and...

Call it a conspiracy theory – or not. But a curious investigative reporter, Jon Rappoport, posted an interesting angle to the Oregon standoff between protesting ranchers and feds that left one of the former dead, with this headline: “The Clintons: Is the Oregon standoff really about uranium?”

(At :20 News 3 Reporter Reed Cowan)....Cliven Bundy threw up his hands in the air and said he wanted to represent himself in this case against him by the federal government. Well that made his attorney Brett Whipple file papers in federal court here behind me saying his client had requested that. The judge denied that request..... (At :45 Attorney Brett Whipple)....He felt frustrated that he couldn't get his viewpoint out..... (At 1:00)...Everybody thinks its about money. It has nothing to do with money it has to do with who was to receive the money. See, Cliven is of the...

The headline is a direct quote from pretrial documents filed by Acting US Attorney Stephen Myhre ahead of the Third Bunkerville Standoff trial set to begin October 10th. Again the federal government, the Department of Justice under the authority of Attorney General Jeff Sessions is seeking to restrict the use of the First and Second Amendment by the seven defendants facing trial. Myhre and his prosecution team seek to prohibit any discussion at any time during the trial from opening arguments to closing arguments, cross examination etc. etc. of matters like self-defense or defense of others, the behavior of Bureau...