Posted on 03/05/2018 2:04:10 PM PST by Nextrush
Last in the first Bunkerville Standoff trial, Todd Engel was convicted on two felony charges with a maximum sentence of 30 years. Greg Burleson was also convicted in that trial but the jury deadlocked on the 40 charges against four other defendants and US District Judge Gloria M. Navarro declared a mistrial on them.
Burleson was sentenced to 68 years in prison last July but Engel's sentencing was pushed back to March 22nd, 2018.
Las Vegas lawyer Warren Markowitz filed appeals on Engel's behalf last month after supporters raised 25-thousand dollars needed to fund it.
One appeal calls for Engel's release from jail and another calls for a new trial.
On February 26th the federal government led by the new US Attorney for Nevada appointed by Jeff Sessions, Dayle Elieson, along with lead prosecutor Steven Myhre and his associates Daniel Scheiss and Nadia Ahmed filed a 26 page document objecting to both appeals.
They say Engel has been convicted of a violent crime and claim there is no "Brady Violation" of withholding evidence in his case. Of course in the third trial it was conclusively revealed that evidence favoring defendants in the Bunkerville trials was as Judge Navarro put it "willfully" withheld by the prosecution.
Attorney Markowtitz posted on his "Facebook" page.
"The long and short, is that they have him, want to keep him, and he's a very bad man. The hypocrisy is overwhelming."
The federal prosecutors response to the appeals said that Engel should serve 17 and a half years in prison.
Markowitz has now filed his written response to the federal prosecutors arguments and he is expecting some decision from the judge this week.
Link to Markowitz Law Firm "Facebook" below......
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