Afterwards, Weaver was ‘convicted’ of one count of not showing up in court. IIRC he and his family got a $3.1M settlement from the government and one of the others got somewhere near $380,000.
Horiuchi, who had penned a sketch in his hotel room after the engagement showing the door, aiming point and silouettes of two people inside plus one outside, the government’s prosecution tanked. In COURT he testified that the only person he saw was the perp running into the door. Outright lie.
When members of the Fed team were charged, they were dismissed because of immunity of government ‘enforcers’ or something like that. MURDERER.
According to the writeup in the American Rifleman (in 1991 or 1993, March issue iirc), Weaver was given the incorrect date to begin with, but the government still went after him on this because they had to convict him of something.
Everything else he was charged with was bogus .... shotgun measurements (he cut the barrels legal 18"), everything.
And it wasn't even about him. It was about forcing him to spy on the Covenanters who were the real objects of the government's campaign.
Which, btw, was a Bush Administration campaign: Bush 41 despises nobody in this world like white trailer-trash who didn't go to Yale. The rest of us he "respects where they're at".
Right-wing gunpunks and bully boys were bottom of the barrel, so Covenanters were absolute tops of his "*hit parade", worse even than Communist spies and jihadi saboteurs.
That's what Bush 41 was working on just before he left office, cleaning up the Davidians, more gunpunks.