Posted on 12/20/2017 5:15:16 AM PST by Nextrush
Edited on 12/20/2017 10:52:30 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
After deciding to delay the third Bunkerville Standoff trial and admitting that much discovery evidence was withheld from defense lawyers and suggesting a mistrial was possible, US District Judge Gloria M. Navarro is expected to make her decision about where the trial and perhaps the case goes next in the coming hours.
The prosecution and defense have given Judge Navarro their opinions in sealed arguments withheld from the public about what should happen next. The defense hoping that the charges against the four defendants in the third trial (Cliven Bundy, Ammon Bundy, Ryan Bundy and Ryan Payne) are dismissed with prejudice.
But Judge Navarro has plenty of other options including a mistrial leading to a retrial of the defendants or continuing the trial with modified conditions.
Late Monday, the prosecutors in the case led by Acting US Attorney Steven Myhre filed a motion calling on the judge to do what she did in the first two trials. Myhre wants to limit the defense from arguing the defendants acted in self-defense or were entrapped by the federal government in the April 12, 2014 standoff near Bundy Ranch in northern Clark County, Nevada.
The prosecution is claiming that the government needs to have a "fair trial" just like the defendants do.
Myhre is calling on defense lawyers to be given a chance to respond to his motion by January 1st.
One of the defense lawyers, federal public defender Brenda Weksler, says the government is "stalling or sandbagging" the case with its motion. Weksler is on the attorneys for defendant Ryan Payne.
Events are expected to unfold in the hours ahead.
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Another bit of information.
Also see Post 8 at this link.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3615266/posts
This Whistle blower has been leaking some interesting things.
DHSWhistler
@DHSwhistler
Showing what a good cop looks like by leaking stuff the big bosses told us not to.
DHSWhistler
@DHSwhistler
Dec 13
Here’s another as Bundy protestors approach the fence. Per BLM agent Dan Love’s kill list, the government planned to shoot the Bundy’s first.
DHSWhistler has been posting pictures of the “scene of the crime” that the Government does not want the public to see.
Giving “BLM Rangers” guns was a bad idea.
Fortunately this case is exposing the abuse of power by the BLM.
Excerpt “Other lawmakers alarmed by the startling abuses of power outlined in the Wooten memo are also speaking out and calling for justice. Idaho Representative Dorothy Moon, a Republican who has constituents ensnared in the case, led a group of more than 50 Idaho lawmakers in a campaign to seek intervention in the case by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. A letter by the legislators asking for help was personally delivered to Sessions by Representative Raul Labrador (R-Idaho), apparently sparking closer scrutiny from the highest echelons of power in Washington, D.C. After that, at least some of the Idahoans behind bars were released, with two pleading guilty to misdemeanors and another being set free with no charges.
Representative Moon visited five of the Idahoans who were in custody on charges related to the cases. “I was never so taken with the true character of these men, their understanding of the Constitution and their determination to see that the light of justice be shown on this horrifying over-reach of federal power,” she told The New American, pointing to Ryan Bundy’s historic opening statement before the court. Concerned about what she learned, Representative Moon decided to go to federal court in Nevada to witness the proceedings. And while there, she saw the defense attorneys hand exculpatory evidence to the court that had allegedly been improperly withheld from the accused. That withholding of exculpatory evidence, Moon believes, helped set Ammon Bundy free, at least temporarily, allowing him to embrace his wife and new child after 22 long months behind bars awaiting trial.”
But the big picture is now coming into view, and Americans must keep the pressure on, Moon said. “The ramifications of the Bundy family story are consequential to the maintenance of proper government, the ethical standard by which government operates and the fundamental rule of law,” she explained in an e-mail to The New American. “It was clear from the get go that the government was acting on an agenda that precluded constitutional guarantees.… I am hopeful that further exposure of this story to the public will reveal the nefarious lengths our federal government was willing to go to force the last Southeast Nevada rancher off his range.” In a phone interview, Moon also said it was important for Americans to follow the case and get involved — everybody’s liberties are under threat when federal agents can run roughshod over individuals, as the BLM appears to have done here.
sad deal for Bundy
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Looks like the Moderator un-excerpted it.
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I think it is very helpful. Thanks for getting things un-excerpted. Would it be very easy for you to do this in the future?
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