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Ammon Bundy's attorney Morgan Philpot had a question at the third Bunkerville Standoff trial yesterday (Tuesday November 14th). Philpot was wondering what the jury is being told about being bused to the courthouse everyday. US District Judge Gloria Navarro said she thinks the jury is being told there is no parking at the courthouse. One potential explanation goes back to the jury selection process when potential jurors were asked if they had any bad experiences with law enforcement. This led one person to cite the menacing and threatening demeanor of federal law enforcement positioned outside the courthouse as they walked...

LAS VEGAS-The federal conspiracy case against Nevada cattleman Cliven Bundy, his two sons and co-defendant Ryan Payne isn't about the right to protest or bear arms, beliefs about cattle, ranching or the government's role in managing public lands, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Instead, the long awaited trial centers around the simple need to respect the rule of law, Nevada's Acting U.S. Attorney Steven Myrhe told jurors. "It's about whether or not you're going to use force and violence to enforce your beliefs," Myhre said. "Are you going to be governed by law and order, or the end of a gun?"..........

When asked by the judge if he wanted a one-week delay, Cliven Bundy's short reply was offered. Defendant Ryan Bundy also opposed a trial delay, but added he would support one if the co-defendants were freed from jail like was to a halfway house yesterday. Prosecutors came into court seeking a one week delay while FBI emails from the weeks leading up to the standoff were sought out and reviewed. Defense attorneys for Ryan Payne and Ammon Bundy asked for a mistrial. Acting US Attorney Steven Myhre offered opening arguments in the morning, claiming that the government's behavior was not...

LAS VEGAS-In a surprising reversal, US District Judge Gloria M. Navarro late Monday agreed to place Ryan Bundy on GPS monitoring and release him from jail to a halfway house on the eve of the Bunkerville trial. The decision came after a full-day hearing in closed court as a defense lawyers raised repeated questions about alleged government misrepresentations of evidence. Amon them: Prosecutors claimed Ryan Bundy had been stunned with a taser during an arrest in Utah 10 years ago, but a video played in court apparently showed that didn't happen. Proseuctors also cited a sheriff's report that Ryan Bundy...

Late today, US District Judge Gloria M. Navarro decided to keep Ammon Bundy in jail but reversed her decision last week releasing Ryan Bundy to a halfway house. Ryan Bundy will defend himself during the trial. Maxine Bernstein of "OregonLive" tweets that the government apparently made "misrepresentations" at last week's detention hearing. In another tweet, Bernsetein said "odd that Judge Navarro didn't explain her decision now to release Ryan Bundy...just said it as an aside". In open court, there was debate over the evidence between lead prosecutor Acting US Attorney Steve Myhre and defense lawyers........

Acting US Attorney Steve Myhre and his team have until 12 Noon today (Saturday November 11th) to turn over to defense lawyers any information related to any armed federal officers deployed around Bundy Ranch during the protests that led to the Bunkerville Standoff. They also have to provide details about the operation of a surveillance camera or cameras by the FBI during the protests in March and April 2014 around Bundy Ranch. US District Judge Gloria Navarro issued the order Wednesday after the Attorney's office sent documents to defense lawyers mentioning the armed federal officers conducting "surveillance" around Bundy Ranch...

LAS VEGAS-A judge declined Thursday to release Nevada cattleman Cliven Bundy days before trial, concerned he doesn't recognize federal authority and has a large incentive to flee with at least 80 years in prison hanging over his head if convicted of four of his 16 charges. US District Judge Gloria M. Navarro also rejected release requests by Ryan Bundy and Ryan Payne and said she would make a decision later on Ammon Bundy. Bret O. Whipple, the attorney representing the elder Bundy on charges in the 2014 standoff near Bunkerville, urged consideration for the patriarch's age, his failing health and...

"Gloria Navarro, you are an evil, cold-hearted woman...You are a liar. I love you dad." Cliven Bundy's daughter speaks out in courtroom when he is denied release at detention hearing-November 10, 2017 Citing the notion that Cliven Bundy does not obey the federal government, US District Judge Gloria Navarro denied Cliven Bundy release at a detention hearing in Las Vegas today, claiming he was a flight risk........

LAS VEGAS-Prosecutors in the Bundy trial must provide information by noon Saturday on all armed federal officers who did surveillance outside the Bundy ranch and any cameras capturing images of the Bundy home between March 1 and April 12, 2014, a judge ordered Wednesday. The information must be turned over to the defense. It could help Cliven Bundy, sons Ammon Bundy and Ryan Bundy and co-defendant Ryan Payne challenge the allegation that they used "deceit and deception" to encourage supporters to come to the ranch saying the house was surrounded, federal snipers were outside the home and the family felt...

Acting US Attorney Steven Myhre was stumbling through an evidence hearing today in the Bunkerville Standoff case, continuing to deny detailed knowledge of an FBI surveillance camera or cameras at Bundy Ranch during the protests there in the spring of 2014. He leveled the accusation that the defense was trying to delay the trial. Myhre spoke of one camera being set up between April 5th and 6th and saying the camera had been made inoperable, suggesting that Ryan Bundy (one of the defendants) may have been responsible for that. Myhre said the camera ended up being moved to a different...

LAS VEGAS-A federal judge Tuesday delayed the long-awaited Bundy trial for a week, pressing prosecutors to provide more details about one or more FBI surveillance cameras trained on the family ranch as the April 2014 standoff unfolded in Nevada's high desert. Defense attorneys learned for the first time during a court hearing last week about the existence of at least one surveillance camera set up on a hill overlooking the ranch in the southeastern corner of the state. The lawyer for ranching family patriarch Cliven Bundy....filed an emergency motion to find out if the camera recorded images and if so...

UD District Judge Gloria J. Navarro decided to delay opening statements in the third Bunkerville Standoff Trial until next Tuesday following last Friday's revelation by a park service employee of a previously unknown FBI surveillance camera overlooking Bundy Ranch. A hearing on the issue is set for tomorrow (Wednesday November 8th)........

"I Ryan Bundy, a man sui juris, MOVE the Court to order or compel plantiff to produce discovery regarding photographic and laser equipment used to surveil the Bundy home and American People who peaceably assembled.... ....Ryan Bundy motion of August 22, 2017...... "testimony elicited in court Friday revealed for the first time that the FBI had one surveillance camera perched on a hill above Bundy Ranch" Maxine Bernstein-"Portland Oregonian/OregonLive"-November 3, 2017 ..... But somewhere I read of the 'freedom of assembly', somewhere I read of the 'freedom of speech', somewhere I read of the 'freedom of the press', somewhere I...

Internet researcher Katica (Twitter GOPollAnalyst) may have found the hidden thread that unravels a much bigger story within the Uranium One-Clinton-FBI scandal. In an otherwise innocuous FBI FOIA FILE Katica located a notice for preservation of documents sent by an FBI special agent to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on August 28th, 2015. What is interesting about the preservation request(s) are the recipients, their attachment to CFIUS (Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States), and the timeline of events surrounding the agent’s notification. The time-line here is very important as it might change the perception of exactly what the FBI...

Defendant Ryan Bundy who is acting in his own defense in the third Bunkerville Standoff trial, says he was mocked by the government when he asked about a camera being used by the federal government during the standoff. But today a National Park Service manager, Mary Hinson, revealed under questioning by Bundy that a live video feed was being used at the federal government's command trailer. It was an FBI live camera rotating from a hill above Bundy Ranch. Cliven Bundy's defense lawyer Bret Whipple was incredulous saying "How can there be a live feed they never disclosed"....."three and a...

The jury for the third Bunkerville Standoff trial has been chosen. Six men and six women are on the jury. The 12 jurors along with four alternates are ready for the trial with opening arguments set for Tuesday morning at 8:30 in Las Vegas. "Yes, I believe they are guilty" wrote Juror No. 66 on their questionnaire, but this juror was still on the final roster today even after Ryan Bundy read that answer directly to Judge Gloria Navarro yesterday. Navarro still insisting that there was no bias in that potential juror. This forced the defense to use one of...

After the Obama administration approved the sale of a Canadian mining company with significant U.S. uranium reserves to a firm owned by Russia’s government, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission assured Congress and the public the new owners couldn’t export any raw nuclear fuel from America’s shores. “No uranium produced at either facility may be exported,” the NRC declared in a November 2010 press release that announced that ARMZ, a subsidiary of the Russian state-owned Rosatom, had been approved to take ownership of the Uranium One mining firm and its American assets. A year later, the nuclear regulator repeated the assurance in...

In Las Vegas today the fight in the courtroom was one about who should be a juror or not. The prosecution not wanting a member of the pool who discussed the Uranium One scandal. The defense not wanting a member of the pool who wants more gun control laws. The Constitution of the United States was the focus of defendant Ryan Bundy's questioning of jury pool members. Bundy is arguing in his own defense at the trial. He stated that the Constitution was the supreme law of the land and asked if the pool members agree with that notion. Bundy...

US District Judge Gloria J. Navarro said in court today that she made "an inadvertent mistake" in removing five potential jurors the defense wanted to keep. Navarro then acted to remove eight potential jurors the prosecution said they wanted to keep. Today there were 57 potential jurors in the courtroom, a group different from yesterday. A scratchy voiced Cliven Bundy addressed the potential jurors. "Good morning and thank you for coming. I appreciate it very much", Bundy said. Judge Navarro has informed potential jurors of the trial schedule, telling them to expect the trial to last into February of next...

LAS VEGAS - The federal trial against Nevada cattleman Cliven Bundy, his two sons, Ammon Bundy and Ryan Bundy, and Ryan Payne began Monday with prosecutors and defense lawyers questioning potential jurors about their beliefs on guns, protests, the government, ranching and the impact of the Oct. 1 mass shooting on the city's famous strip. Ryan Bundy, representing himself, had his leg shackles removed and then posed his own questions from a podium before a group of nearly 50 potential jurors. "I am a true Nevadan. I was born on Nevada Day," he said, referencing Halloween -- the day Nevada...