Posted on 10/23/2017 5:56:39 PM PDT by Nextrush
A week before their third trial was set to begin on charges related to the April 2014 Bunkerville Standoff near Bundy Ranch, Eric Parker and Scott Drexler pled guilty to a charge of obstruction of a court order. This is a misdemeanor charge.
Parker and Drexler will be sentenced February 2, 2018. Both men will not serve any additional jail time, receiving credit for the 18 months already served without bail since they were arrested early last year and held through the end of the second trial a few months ago.
Juries have either acquitted the two or deadlocked 11-1 not guilty on most of the twenty felony charges leveled against them......
Cliven Bundy, Ammon Bundy, Ryan Bundy and Ryan Payne are still to be tried in the third trial.
The status of the planned October 30th trial will be clarified in a "calendar call" involving Judge Gloria Navarro and the prosecution and defense lawyers tomorrow in Las Vegas. The trial was pushed back to that date after the carnage in Las Vegas earlier this month.
Today there was an evidence hearing in Las Vegas for that trial before US District Judge Gloria Navarro and being questioned as a potential witness by Skype was fired Bureau of Land Management agent Dan Love.....
Many "I don't recall" answers were given.....
But a very important part of his testimony was Love saying that people above him in Washington were giving orders to people under his command that he was not aware of which apparently includes the destruction of documents related to the standoff.......
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Why do you insist on putting title in alll caps?! Unnecessary.
Put a sock in it, “NevadaGator”.
Its the way I do it on the blog.
And an equally yuge black eye for these overreaching feds. Let that be a lesson to this judge, the prosecutors, and their heavy-handed, Tyrannical ilk...
Many folks need to go to prison for this.
Off the top of my head: Dan Love, the presiding judge, and the administrators of the private prison that have been abusing the defendants constantly.
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