[Nextrush]

I hope this isn't what Jeff Sessions "evidence expert" told them to do but I have to assume its the plan from Washington.

3300 pages of evidence withheld, much of it exculpatory toward the defendants.

An insane argument coming from Steve Myhre in Las Vegas.

[ptsal]

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Thanks for the head’s up.

[SharpRightTurn]

This travesty should be shut down. If the prosecutors persist, they should be warned by the judge that if they ask to retry the case one more time they will be charged with prosecutorial abuse.

[alloysteel]

Isn’t this “double jeopardy”, retrying the defendants on the same charges using essentially the same evidence?

Exculpation is evidently not considered. Harry Reid’s heavy hand still rests of the scales of justice.

[tennmountainman]

The Prosecutors should be going to jail.

[fella]

Keep trying them until they accept a plea deal? The trials are the punishmet. Offical oppression like the British colonial goverment flisted on our ancestors before 1775. The 6th Amendment is long dead.

[norwaypinesavage]

A few years back, I was a minor participant in a civil trial in a DC court. During one session, the DOJ lawyer clearly lied to the judge. Afterward, I asked our attorney how he could get by with that. His answer was quite surprising. He replied, "The lawyer wasn't under oath", as if that explained it. But then he added rather cynically: "A judge becomes very good at detecting liars. In many cases the defendant is lying, the lawyers are lying, and the only one possibly telling the truth is the witness. The judges become very good at detecting who's lying".

In this case, in my opinion, the DOJ lawyers are clearly lying. I suspect the judge knows that, too.

[yldstrk]

Discovery is a problem. If the defense didn’t request it, there is no reason to give it. And you can’t always tell what you are going to use until you decide to use it in trial. It’s always a struggle to determine what does and what does not need to be disclosed. There are attorney work product issues also. It’s not all black and white. Working in the gray areas is what makes legal work difficult.

My comments apply to all cases, not just Bundy’s. My problem in the Bundy case is that I have not been able to figure out what Bundys are being prosecuted for. Which brings up another problem—overzealous prosecution with no regard for the truth. I don’t do criminal defense, but I am around it. I see and hear about so much overcharging, wanting convictions to build a record to support a judicial appointment for the prosecutor later, it just makes me sick.

[Delta 21]

....was "inadvertent" or because they reasonably believed the law didn't require them to share the material......

[RideForever]

Horsecrap. The defense asked for specific documents and media, and the defense explicitly told them it didn’t exist. That is not ‘inadvertant’, that is prosecutorial misconduct due to obvious perjury. And grounds for terminating sanctions with referral to BAR to strip prosecutor of attorney license and immunity from civil suit(s).

[kenmcg]

Again Sessions sleeping at the switch, all the more reason for Trump to fire the wimp.