Posted on 08/31/2017 4:54:04 AM PDT by Nextrush
This morning the five top level (Tier 1) defendants in the Bunkerville Standoff case will be involved in a status hearing along with the two Tier 2 defendants prosecutor Steve Myhre still wants to prosecute after juries failed to convict them in two trials.
The six Tier 2 defendants were tried first after a previous status hearing many months ago where Cliven Bundy asked US District Judge Gloria Navarro to try the second group which contains no members of his family "so they could be home with their families soon".
Now four of those six men are home with their families after the first Bunkerville trials failed to convict them.
The failure to convict the defendants has slowed down the federal government's plans to try three tiers of defendants at a cost that is being hidden from public knowledge but is obviously in the many millions of dollars.
The Tier 3 group which includes Cliven Bundy's sons Mel and Dave likely won't face trial until next year.
Regardless, all of those accused in the two tiers not tried have been held 18 months or more without a trial. No swift and speedy trials here.
As the Trump Administration settles in and it becomes more obvious that US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has the power over this case and its future track grassroots patriots, farmers and ranchers who supportered the Bunkerville protest against federal overreach are increasingly disturbed.
Sessions comments last month.....
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Video updates on "JGrady" account You Tube and Bundy Ranch Facebook, also check Gavin Seim for Liberty Facebook.
The Tier 1 group in court today are Cliven Bundy, Ammon Bundy, Ryan Bundy, Ryan Payne and Pete Santilli.
Did we do away with Double Jeopardy?!
Or did the definition get changed to a minimum of two trials?
Mistrials have never been considered double jeopardy. The retrials would only be on the mistrial counts. They, the tier already tried, have been acquitted of other charges.
Holding someone more than 18 months without a trial is a major issue. If the government can put on a prosecution in that time, the defendant should at least be released on bail.
As I have understood the case, None of the Bundy’s have been home with family. Is that a true statement?
I have not had a clear understanding of tier 1, 2 and 3.
Another travesty of Justice seems to be Pete Santilli as a tier one. All I can say after seeing that and not knowing the definition of tier one two and three, is Good God Almighty.
Pete of all people should have been released immediately if for no other reason than to provide truthful coverage of the upcoming proceedings. The whole deal smacks of WACO and Ruby Ridge, and enough time has passed that most folks have forgotten those situations where only a teensy bit of Justice for the non government side was ever received, and that only in the Ruby Ridge case, and teensy, doesn’t begin to explain it.
Not forgotten by many is the Dan Love BLM overreach, a story that goes way beyond Bundy Ranch, with Government on the march against “we the people”.
Perhaps last but certainly not least is the story leading up to the murder of Lavoy Finicum. Another story that does not ever need to slide into forgotten history. A father of eleven IIRC gunned down for no good reason by “the government”. We the people were extremely lucky that day that an entire truckload of people weren’t gunned down with him.
Holding someone more than 18 months without a trial is a major issue.
You can say that again.
...and again and again.
Thank You
Look on the bright side... in Waco, da gubmint kilt everbody... ‘n’ got away with it.
That it is permitted doesn’t mean it’s right.
How many hung juries are permitted? Two? Three? Five? What is the arbitrary limit? The financial exhaustion of the accused?
The accused are innocent when they enter the courtroom. The prosecution must convince a jury that the accused is guilty. If he fails to do so that innocent person must be freed. The only exception would be some impropriety in the conduct of the trial.
Repeatedly trying someone because the jury did not pronounce “not guilty” inverts the foundation of our laws, rendering it that the accused must prove his innocence. This practice means the innocent may repeatedly have to prove his innocence. It’s barbaric and has it’s roots in monarchy. It’s intolerable.
All the folks in this case are jailed without bail except the two fully not guilty who are totally free and the two the jury didn’t convict in two trials who are free for the moment without bail.
BTW, the top five defendants Tier 1 go on trial with two with the “hung jury” charges pending on October 10th.
That was decided today.
Thanks for the update.
New update coming soon as the hearing led to a trial date of October 10th for seven defendants.
Didn’t say I agreed, just explaining the difference between acquittal and a hung jury. My belief is that in the exception of the higher crimes: murder, treason, etc once a conviction hasn’t been reached by the jury it should be dropped by the prosecution.
But opinions and beliefs aren’t the law. The executive through the AG through the lower levels to the prosecuting atty determine if they want to proceed to trial again. There are more than enough to stop this if they had the will. I don’t think they care and are ignoring it - at their peril.
Innocent until PROVEN guilty, but somehow worthy of years in a jail cell while awaiting a verdict of guilty. Government Justice?
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