Posted on 05/03/2017 5:04:32 AM PDT by Nextrush
ONLY TEN CONVICTIONS ON 60 CHARGES WITH NO CONVICTION ON CHARGES JUDGE SAID WERE NEEDED TO CONVICT ON THE REST
(Special Update: Wednesday May 3rd AM: Acting US Attorney Stephen Myrhe has decided to retry the six men with four of them facing all ten counts against them for a second time. The two convicted defendants, Greg Burleson and Todd Engel will be tried on the counts they were not convicted of in the first trial.
The decision to retry the six men comes under the auspices of the US Department of Justice and the new Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Judge Gloria Navarro had set a June 26th retrial date for the six.)
In the end only two of the six defendants in the first Bunkerville Standoff trial were found guilty. Each faced ten charges with Greg Burleson convicted of eight and Todd Engel of two.
U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro declared a mistrial on the rest of the charges where the jury wad unable to reach a verdict, then scheduled a new trial on those charges for June 26th.
But according to observers of the trial, Navarro had told the jurors they could not convict on the last eight charges against each defendant without convicting them of the firs two conspiracy charges......
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She admonished viewers about the notion that "Trump was going to do something" about the prosecution-persecution of the dozens of men accused in the Bunkerville Standoff of April 2014 near Bundy Ranch.
This will push back the previously planned June 26th trial for Cliven Bundy, Ammon Bundy and three other defendants.
Stewart in her video last night urged financial support for Ammon Bundy's legal defense fund.
Proper link to my blog.
http://nextrushfree.blogspot.com/2017/05/manufactured-verdicts-in-nevada-from.html
‘’THEY HAVE TO FIND THERE IS A CONSPIRACY FIRST BECAUSE IF THEY FIND THERE IS NOT A CONSPIRACY, IF THEY CANNOT UNANIMOUSLY AGREE AND I BELIEVE THE FIRST COUNT OF CONSPIRACY HAS SIX DIFFERENT ELEMENTS AND THE SECOND ONLY HAS TWO AND IF THEY CANNOT FIND UNANIMOUSLY THAT THEY AGREE ON ANY OF THOSE COUNTS THEN THERE IS NO CONSPIRACY AND THEREFORE NOBODY CAN BE GUILTY OF ANYTHING”
So we will just have to try them again to see if we can make it stick this time around.
I suspect that the two defendants convicted in the first trial would win on appeal because the judge said without convictions on the first two charges, they could not be convicted on any of the rest like the jury did in the first trial.
No convictions on the first two charges for them, only convictions on other charges down the list.
It sounds to me like the judge just didnt get the verdict she wanted. And is refusing to follow her own judicial advice of there being no way to be guilty of the latter without being guilty of the former.
I say we give The Cankle another try at the election as well. Surely if we give her another chance we might get the results we desire.
Ho hum. Federal Judges, and Federal Prosecutors looking for work. There seems to be plenty available by digging deep. Frankly, “We the People” seem to be at a distinct disadvantage when it comes to Federal charges and court action. Why oh why is that so? So many clueless Governors and State Legislatures allowing the Fed to run rampant in their once sovereign states. Could the ratification of the progressive seventeenth Amendment have anything to do with the situation?
Could Harry effin Reed and his land grabbing sons, and the desert tortoise, have any bearing on the attitude of State officials vis-a-vis the Bundy’s and their plight? That would be more of the same in a State where the Federal Government thinks they own more than ninety percent of the land area. It is no wonder that back in the day, Gambling became the industry that supports the state. Everything else is locked up tight, unless of course you happen to be one of the elite.
Thanks for the update.
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