Posted on 12/29/2017 7:16:53 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Unsealed court documents detail how the team of prosecutors tasked with convicting Cliven Bundy and his sons of crimes relating to a 2014 armed standoff failed to turn over potential exculpatory evidence to the court, The Oregonian reports.
The Bundys’ case ended in a mistrial Dec. 20 after Judge Gloria Navarro ruled that prosecutors violated the civil rights of the defendants by withholding evidence supporting the Bundys’ case.
Navarro is considering dismissing the case “with prejudice” and blocking prosecutors from retrying the case.
Her decision will come Jan. 8, according to The New York Times.
“There were approximately 3,000 pages that were provided to us only after we started trial,” Bundy lawyer Bret D. Whipple told TheNYT.
“I personally have never seen anything like this, especially in a case of such importance.”
Leah Sottile ✔ @Leah_Sottile Judge Gloria Navarro called a mistrial today in the #bundytrial — "the only suitable option" because of several Brady violations in government's handling of discovery. "A fair trial at this point is impossible."
11:39 AM - Dec 20, 2017
Those 3,000 pages include the Bundys’ requests for multiple federal assessments that showed the Bundy family was likely not dangerous.
Prosecutors called the requests part of a “long list of frivolous and vexatious pleadings,” until a government witness, under cross examination, revealed knowledge of the assessments in court, The Oregonian reports.
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>RINO Jonah Goldberg wrote recently that he thinks “the Establishment” is running things for the most part in Washington DC in spite of Donald Trump being POTUS.
I think Trump’s plan is to let them overplay their hands and then nail them.
The liberal judges won’t let them be convicted. Probably the only way is for them to be shot resisting citizens arrest. I really do not see any other way. And with this, you see why the left supports gun confiscation.
That’s it exactly !!!
and Dirty Harry !!!
Exactly.
Iv seen far worse in the Clinton years. But with no press, most people will never get it.
“Trump needs more like him to shake things up and more people at a grassroots level need to stop feeding at the RINO slop troughs of Fox News and talk radio.
They need to find out about real issues like this and take a stand outside the control of the political machine to force things to change.”
Those two comments are the real meat of what you wrote. I have an uneasy feeling that some of his appointees, like Sessions, are really not “on the Trump train.” And furthermore they may well be there to try and end his presidency. Notice how Sessions went to ground immediately leaving Rosenf*cker to play Brutus. It must be awful, as President, not to know whom you can trust, and be so wrapped up with the Mueller cabal that you really can’t make a move without putting yourself at risk. In reality, with few exceptions, THE WHOLE F*CKING GOVERNMENT is out to try and sink this wonderful man.
“Lock up the worst offenders for 500 years for civil rights violations.”
NO! Execute them for Treason and or Sedition! That is a message that will get through.
I hope she tosses it and prevents the feds from retrying. They acted criminally and they should be tried.
And yet the persecutors are clamoring for a retrial.
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