Posted on 10/28/2016 4:56:06 AM PDT by Nextrush
Moments after the Oregon standoff defendants' acquittals were announced in court Thursday, Ammon Bundy's lawyer stood before the judge, and argued that his client should be released...
U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown told him that there was a U.S. Marshal's hold on him from a pending federal indictment in Nevada.
"No, he's released on these charges. He's acquitted. Nevada doesn't have jurisdiction," Mumford yelled, standing before the judge. "If there's a detainer, show me.".......
Suddenly a group of about six to seven U.S. Marshals, who had been either standing or seated around the perimeter of the courtroom, slowly moved in and surrounded Mumford at his defense table. The judge directed them to move back but moments later, the marshals grabbed onto him.
"What are you doing?" Mumford yelled, as he struggled and was taken down to the floor.
As deputy marshals yelled, "Stop resisting," the judge demanded, "Everybody out of the courtroom now!"....
He was cited for failure to comply with a federal lawful order and disturbance and released with a Jan. 6 date to return to federal court....
But observers who were close to the arrest decried the use of force against a lawyer in court.
"What happened at the end is symbolic of the improper use of force by the federal government," Mumford's co-counsel J. Morgan Philpot said......
Defense lawyer Per C. Olson, who represented co-defendant David Fry, called the physical confrontation "a complete overreaction. Utterly disgusting."
Olson said Mumford was getting animated, but he did nothing physical. He didn't charge the bench, or block marshals from his client. "He raised his arm as if to say, what the hell....And they grabbed him, Tased him and took him down. It was just shocking. It was completely inappropriate," Olson said......
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...
Beat me to it.
How can they hold him on a pending indictment?
Help think up another term to describe what the United States has become.
A small miracle the jury used the power of nullification; a power all courts are loath to mention. However, the judge and the Feds showed their contempt for the will of the people by not releasing the defendant and then shooting the defense lawyer in court. The Fed is out of control.
Bull O’Connor nothing. This is Nazi Germany/Stalinist Russia at its finest.
I wonder if that's realty true.... If it is, it would seem to be in violation of all sorts of different laws...(?)
deeply divided. And I think we should somehow, some way, just split.
Esp if Hillary wins.
It wasn’t until 1895 that judges started to refuse to allow juries to know that they had the power of nullification of bad law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
This was bad but the real story here is jury nullification
But the real real story here is that there has been NO national reporting on this, even Drudge doesn’t have it (or I missed it) It should be the flashing red light topic!
Um, what part of "Federal indictment" did he not understand? Lodge a protest if you wish, but come on.
Wow.
On that, we both agree.
Back in January Trump said he would tell the Bundys that they have to get out.
Judges and prosecutors definitely don't want the public to know about this.
Bizarre!
The Oregon Standoff trial has completely backfired on the Obama administration, and wow!
Adding to the Weird News & Adventure Ping archive:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2609314/posts?q=1&;page=151
He was cited for failure to comply with a federal lawful order and disturbance and released with a Jan. 6 date to return to federal court....
But observers who were close to the arrest decried the use of force against a lawyer in court.
“What happened at the end is symbolic of the improper use of force by the federal government,” Mumford’s co-counsel J. Morgan Philpot said......
The lesson here is this, it is 2016 and facial recognition technology is very real. If you ever participate in a Ranch Standoff, cut the John Wayne tough guy act and cover your face!
This (the US Marshalls) is like taking a sucker punch at the guy who scored the winning goal making your team loase.
I didn’t realize indictment was grounds for jailing, but, hey! - that’s just me...
CA....
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