Posted on 10/25/2016 5:28:53 AM PDT by Nextrush
The jury in the Oregon Standoff trial will be coming back for a third day of deliberations today.
They began last Thursday and continued yesterday.
Supporters of the defendants are on the streets of downtown Portland outside the courthouse.
Yesterday defense attorney Matt Schindler, who represents defendant Kenneth Medenbach, mixed with the supporters.
Brand Nu Thornton blew his shofar yesterday in the streets of Portland. He did the same thing at the wildlife refuge during the protest in January.
There's a Twitter feed #oregonstandoff where you can keep up any developments that may break today.
Conventional wisdom is that the longer the jury is out, the better the outcome for the defendants.
This trial will be an interesting gauge of the popular sentiment about the federal government.
If they are found guilty, it is because the jury thinks that the feds are “good people trying to do good, and being attacked by those who don’t appreciate the good they are doing.”
But if they are found not guilty, it is because the jury thinks that the feds are oppressive, heavy-handed brutes who exercise far more authority than permitted by the constitution, yet when resisted at all, even peacefully, not only respond with violence, but whine and snivel and curse and persecute those who resist their power.
Let’s see what the jury thinks. And if it is for acquittal, will the feds accept their decision, or take them to trial again and again until convicted.
It's the Government of Corruption. Do you really expect them to accept anything but their word on ANYTHING? They will litigate this until those charged accept a plea or are found guilty of multiple felonies. In the Mean Time, both the FBI Director and Assistant Director are bought and paid for by the Clinton/ McCauliffe Crime syndicate.
We shall see.
This was an opportunity for a jury of mostly western Oregonians (the “Left Coast”) to experience the concerns of their fellow Oregonians east of the Cascade Mountain passes where the old ways of logging first, now farming and ranching have been under siege for decades from federal government policy.
The defense lawyers-defendants tried to bring some liberalism into their arguments as well. Many of the defense lawyers are court appointed Portlandians.
Eight of the jurors are women. There were plenty of women called as defense witnesses.
Thanks for these updates.
3 days of Deliberations? I would say that they are walking on most of the charges.
Hold everything. Deliberations have been halted, and a juror has been dismissed. Turns out he was a former BLM employee and admitted to being very biased. The judge has replaced him with an alternate and ordered the jury to begin their deliberations again.
I am glad to hear that Brand is there, but concerned that he might be arrested also. I remember when LaVoy was shot, Brand had left the refuge the day before and took the shofar with him back to Utah. There was a lot of discussion about that at the time.
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