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Posted on 08/23/2016 5:29:48 PM PDT by george76
It was a rough morning for U.S. attorneys arguing the federal government’s case against Ammon Bundy, Ryan Bundy and six other defendants accused of conspiring to occupy an Oregon wildlife refuge.
A visibly frustrated Judge Anna Brown struck from the record a previous ruling that effectively allowed evidence from defendants’ Facebook accounts into next month’s trial.
Despite calling an assistant U.S. attorney, two legal assistants and an FBI agent as witnesses, prosecutors weren’t able to explain to the court how protected information from 11 Facebook accounts used by defendants ended up being shared as part of discovery.
Judge Brown ordered the government to file a full factual account of how it went about conducting a search warrant for Facebook data, which prosecutors intend to use to show occupiers planning the refuge takeover.
Earlier this summer, Brown refused a defense request to suppress Facebook evidence. Now defense attorneys will have the opportunity to re-argue the issue with the hope of keeping photos, private messages and other social media material from being used in the trial, which begins Sept. 7.
If Brown finds the FBI or the U.S. attorney violated the terms of its Facebook search warrant, she could throw all the Facebook evidence out.
As part of their search warrant, prosecutors were supposed to filter out Facebook information deemed irrelevant to the occupation case. But defense attorney Per Olson, who represents refuge occupier David Fry, discovered earlier this month that federal prosecutors had included information outside the Facebook search warrant terms with defense teams as part of the pre-trial discovery process.
In a letter dated Aug. 5, prosecutors acknowledged the mistake but said it was inadvertent.
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The Hammonds are off their ranch.
Finicum is dead. Shot in the back and left to bleed out in the snow, with not a soul to say a word over him or even touch his hand. No medical. Not on a blind curve. But the occupants of the truck survived because they lay low. Some of the bullet casings disappeared.
Meanwhile, the Bundys are in jail, with Ammon in solitary and Ryan nearly assassinated-pushed down a flight of stairs-before being taken to court, without medical attention.
Uranium.
Chinese deal on solar.
Rare earths.
Water.
F’ the Feds.
We want them and the democrats out of Oregon.
They’re destroying our state.
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From what I hear the Hammonds had as part of the probation offered as sentencing for one year, they agree to never sell the property to anyone but the Feds. Then when they get out of prison, they are “RE-Sentenced. I don’t know the facts, but they most likely could have gotten the full 5 years with no probation afterwards. That would have meant they could keep the land in the family, or sell it to another Rancher. This was a land grab in the tradition of some Western Movies where the powerful take all they can and kill those who stand in their way.
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The Hammonds have ended up getting rid of their cattle.
I am moving more and more toward hating this Administration in its entirety.
I thank God every day for the black slime and pray for Him to please pelt everyone there with it.
reminds me of Randy Weaver, Gordon Call..... Yourie is still in prison....
f’n feds..... they murder and imprison the patriots....hate them.
The Federal government is a foreign based occupying entity. Little different than Germany after WW II.
Boy, I'll bet the Bundys wish they knew then what they know now about the FBI, and its Praetorian leanings when it comes to elitist .gov felons...
FYI
So did the judge sell heroine to the government on top of facebook or did the judge sell heroine made by the government while lying on top of said evidence?
Excellent synopsis - I would just add one item to the last list:
SOS Hillary Clinton
Aha, the old “no intent” defense.....
“Uranium.
Chinese deal on solar.
Rare earths.
Water.”
Yes, always follow the money.
Always.
The pretrial activity is underway including the government’s use of a questionnaire designed to weed out jurors who may have the ‘wrong views’ on the Constitution and Second Amendment.
The Current US government is a criminal enterprise. If Trump gets elected and does not call off the BLM and the EPA from ranchers and miners we will be Heading for CWII anyway.
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