Surprised I didn't see todays surprising news on the Bundy Trial here. So here ya go:

Mistrial

http://www.oregonlive.com/oreg..._bu.html#incart_2box

Any sympathy the government had from me on this issue, and they had plenty, is starting drift away fast.

It will be interesting to see if the judge updates her ruling to: mistrial with prejudice.

apparently, she wants a hearing to discuss it prior to the final ruling. If that happens, then it will be a dead issue for the courts.

I have not followed the case, but it sounds like a Federal shit show.

Isn't Bundy dead?! And doesn't that sort of make it a moot point? Good grief, Judge - get a life....

^^^^^^

Ummmmm...Different Bundy

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Originally posted by Fenris:
I have not followed the case, but it sounds like a Federal shit show.

That would be my assessment as well. BLM getting too big for it's britches. Lots of western farmers and ranchers would agree, I think.

RMD

Apparently a BLM Criminal Investigator pointed out the prosecution knowingly withheld potentially exculpatory material, in violation of the rules on discovery.

I'll look for the story and post it.

Here is a Link.

Apparently the investigator documented a MST of unprofessional behavior and rampant stupidity by other BLM investigators. This prompted the judge to declare a mistrial.

Those BLM agents sound like the FBI clowns working for Mueller. Unprofessionals pursuing personal agendas with no respect for their agency or the citizens they are supposed to be working for. Just another example of what an out of control federal bureaucracy looks like.

Hearin' about Al makes me long for The Jiggly Room!

thats good news - I hope its with prejudice

Suck it up Fed thugs - new sherif in town, and rules are going to apply.


DOJ Opens Probe Into Bundy Prosecutors Who Hid Evidence


The Department of Justice (DOJ) has opened a probe into federal prosecutors of the recent trial of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, E&E News reports.

Bundy faced criminal charges related to a 2014 standoff with Bureau of Land Management (BLM) agents. After the prosecutions numerous missteps and “willful” withholding of evidence that would aid the Bundy’s defense, the judge ruled a mistrial Wednesday, The Oregonian reports.

The DOJ did not say whether it would pursue another trial against Cliven Bundy and others involved in the 2014 standoff, according to E&E News.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions “personally directed that an expert in the department’s discovery obligations be deployed to examine the case and advise as to next steps,” DOJ deputy director of public affairs Ian Prior told The Oregonian.

“This is every prosecutor’s nightmare,” retired federal prosecutor Kent Robinson said.

Weeks before U.S. District Judge Gloria M. Navarro declared a mistrial of the case, a memo written by a BLM agent assigned to investigate the agency’s actions during the 2014 raid on the Bundy ranch was released. The memo contained serious allegations of misconduct and likely illegal activities by BLM officials and prosecutors, led by acting Nevada U.S. Attorney Steven Myhre, throughout the raid and trial of Cliven Bundy.

Throughout the trial, Myhre and his team of prosecutors were caught violating the Brady law six separate times for refusing to turn over exculpatory evidence that could help the Bundys.

Myhre had removed the agent responsible for the memo, Larry Wooten, from his position investigating the BLM in February, confiscating all his records and data. Wooten wrote his 18 page memo from memory and leaked it the DOJ.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/12...rs-who-hid-evidence/

If the FBI was involved, you know it was illegal. They are the new brown shirts. They need to be defunded. That entire organization hates the USA and will do its level best to destroy it.

FUCK the FBI.

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Originally posted by MNSIG:
^^^^^^

Ummmmm...Different Bundy

quote:

Originally posted by Sig2340:
Apparently a BLM Criminal Investigator pointed out the prosecution knowingly withheld potentially exculpatory material, in violation of the rules on discovery.

I'll look for the story and post it.

Here is a Link.

Apparently the investigator documented a MST of unprofessional behavior and rampant stupidity by other BLM investigators. This prompted the judge to declare a mistrial.

Somebody should be in deep shit.

Update:
http://www.oregonlive.com/oreg...ors_seek_new_tr.html

"The Brady violations found by the court are regrettable and benefit no one,'' Nevada's Acting U.S. Attorney Steven Myhre wrote in a 55-page legal brief. "But because the government neither flagrantly violated nor recklessly disregarded its obligations, the appropriate remedy for such violations is a new trial.''

US judge in Las Vegas may dismiss ranching standoff case

Posted on Sunday, January 7th, 2018 By Ken Ritter, Associated Press

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A U.S. judge who declared a mistrial last month could end the much-watched criminal prosecution of a Nevada rancher accused of leading an armed uprising against federal authorities.

Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro's decision on Monday is sure to echo among states' rights advocates in Western states where the federal government controls vast expanses that some people want to remain protected and others want open for grazing, mining and oil and gas drilling.

"To the Bundys, it's really more a political trial than a criminal trial," said Ian Bartrum, a University of Nevada, Las Vegas law professor.

"They're trying to get a particular message out about federal government overreach in the West, and Nevada in particular, and that states should have more local control," Bartrum said of 71-year-old family patriarch Cliven Bundy and his co-defendant sons, Ryan and Ammon Bundy.

"For the government, this is a criminal trial," Bartrum said. "They say, 'You can't have people show up with automatic weapons and defy federal officers.'"

Indeed, Steven Myhre, the first assistant U.S. attorney in Nevada, has cast the Bundys and co-defendant Montana militia leader Ryan Payne as leaders of a conspiracy that enlisted protesters and gunmen to "do whatever it takes" to stop federal Bureau of Land Management agents from seizing Bundy cattle in a decades-long grazing dispute.

The April 2014 standoff 80 miles (129 kilometers) northeast of Las Vegas pitted about three dozen heavily armed federal agents guarding corrals in a dry riverbed against hundreds of flag-waving men, women and children calling for the release of some 400 cows. The cattle had been rounded up from public land where Bundy let his herd graze for 20 years without paying government fees.

Several gunmen among the protesters had assault-style rifles and staked out commanding positions on a freeway overpass. Most of them were acquitted of criminal charges in two trials last year.

Ryan and Ammon Bundy also were acquitted of federal criminal charges in Oregon after leading an armed takeover in early 2016 of a national wildlife refuge to demand the government turn over public land to local control.

In the Nevada standoff, near Bunkerville, no shots were fired before outnumbered and outgunned U.S. Bureau of Land Management and National Park Service agents withdrew.

"They got what they wanted that day," Myhre said during Nov. 14 trial openings. "They got it at the end of a gun."

Trouble with the case was evident from the start, and Myhre lost a last-minute bid for a postponement. Proceedings were interrupted several times for closed-door hearings and sealed document filings before Navarro declared a mistrial Dec. 20.

The judge signaled she might dismiss the case outright and severely criticized prosecutors for "willful" violations of constitutional due process, including failing to turn over some evidence to defense teams.

"The defense is supposed to be able to see whatever evidence the government has gathered," Bartrum said. "The way it works is the defense sees if it's relevant and the judge decides if it's relevant enough to come in at trial."

"The government is saying there was no bad faith, just a regrettable oversight," Bartrum added. "But harmless is not for the prosecution to decide."

Cliven Bundy's lawyer, Bret Whipple, said Friday he was optimistic his client will be exonerated and freed.

"The court laid the foundation when she granted the mistrial," the attorney said.

Bundy is the only one of the four defendants still jailed after refusing the judge's offer of house arrest.

"He feels that to accept conditions for his release would be to acknowledge he did something wrong," Whipple said. "He wants to walk out a free man."

Gregg Cawley, a University of Wyoming professor who writes about land protests in the West, said a collapse of the case would be seen by many as a victory for states' rights.

"But it would not actually be a clean victory," Cawley said. "Conspiracy is very hard to prove. The Bundys got acquitted in Oregon. But if charges in Nevada are dropped, there's no resolution to the question.

"It could be seen as criminals going free on a technicality, rather than an actual vindication."

http://marketbeat.com/URL/?URL...off-case-2018-01-07/

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Originally posted by 41:
US judge in Las Vegas may dismiss ranching standoff case


"It could be seen as criminals going free on a technicality, rather than an actual vindication."

http://marketbeat.com/URL/?URL...off-case-2018-01-07/

if the charges are dismissed, that pretty much proves they aren't criminals

now, how about bringing the agents up on charges and treating them the same way?