The judge will be sentencing the convicted defendants and deciding on restitution later with a tentative sentencing date of May 10th in the case.
Much disappointment and disgust from supporters of the protestors convicted in the second trial of both felony and misdemeanor charges.
Gavin Seim posting a video late last night speaking of the need to take a stand non-violently in the wake of the second Oregon trial and in the face of Judge Gloria Navarro's heavy-handed tactics in the first Bunkerville Standoff trial in Las Vegas where supporters of the defendants are having their copies of the Constitution confiscated at the courthouse door.
Seim speaks of the USA as now being a 'third world country'. Peter Hitchens "Mail on Sunday" column the other day says the UK is almost a 'banana republic'. Dire statements indeed.
One thing that deserves to happen right now is for President Trump to release Dwight and Steven Hammond from prison.
Their five year prison sentence 'for burning grass' as activist John Lamb posted the other day is wrong. Its a terrorism sentence under federal law because they lit a backfire to protect their land from a brushfire.
The Hammonds were the reason for the Oregon Standoff protest-release the Hammonds now Mr. President.
We deserve so much better from Washington DC than this nonsensical phony debate that masks business as usual on matters like ‘health care’.
Business needs to be taken care of and by that I mean the big corporations and big banks.
So Obamacare can get a new label on it and new sugar coating, but its still the same ‘excrement sandwich’ inside.
Heck, I heard on John Batchelor’s radio show the other day that Ezekiel Emmanuel, the much maligned architect of Obamacare is back in town for the “fix”.
The “Banana Republicans” don’t care about the Hammonds sitting in jail serving a mandatory five-year ‘terrorism sentence’ for lighting a backfire.
Donald Trump needs to send the corrupt judiciary a message by bringing some justice to all this starting with release of the Hammonds from jail now........
Would like to know if Pres. Trump is aware of the Hammond issue.
Screw the 6th amendment... they get no jury. A judge will do it all. Why would anyone want a jury of their peers?
Why did they request a bench trial?
“Shortly afterward, Patrick was taken into custody by deputy U.S. marshals after the judge ordered that he be placed on electronic monitoring as he awaited sentencing.”
No fine? It’s a damn misdemeanor charge!! This is a railroad job. Is his legs in shackles?