Hammond Family
Posted on 01/04/2016 3:52:15 PM PST by combat_boots
The media are focused on the “Bundy Militia” angle to the standoff in Burns Oregon, where Aamon Bundy and brothers have taken over a Malheur Wildlife Refuge Headquarters to draw attention to the plight of the Hammond family (Full Complex Back Story Here).
However, a little research (HatTip NeverTooLate) into the original legal battle reveals a rather startling update.
Hammond Family
The initial, and regarded by many as overreaching, federal prosecution resulted in a federal court judge Michael Hogan assigning a 3-month sentence and 1-year sentence for Dwight Lincoln Hammond Jr (73) and his son, Steven Dwight Hammond (46) respectively.
Even federal Judge Hogan stated the prosecution under “terrorism statutes” itself was an overreach and he refused to assign ridiculously high sentences for behavior that almost every rancher has conducted for generations.
Those sentences were fulfilled by the father an son duo in 2013 with Steven Hammond exiting prison in January 2014.  However, it was a decision by a U.S District Attorney named Amanda Marshall which called for an appeal to the sentencing:
"Amanda Marshall: Former U.S. Attorney for Oregon. Marshall recommended that the federal government challenge the Hammonds; original prison sentences. By law, the convictions come with mandatory five-year sentences, but U.S. District Judge Michael Hogan in 2012 balked at the punishment and instead sentenced Dwight Hammond to three months and Steven Hammond to one year.
Marshall called Hogan's punishments "unlawful." The solicitor general authorized a rare appeal of an Oregon judge's order. The appeals court sided with the prosecution, and the Hammonds returned to federal court last year to face a second sentencing. At that hearing, U.S. Chief District Judge Ann Aiken ordered the pair to finish
(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
You think they’ll take over the Hammond home as an education center?
It’s good to be king of the hill.
There is a gofundme for the Hammonds-until that outfit ‘cancels’ it-for the sake of the Borg.
Happy New Year to you and yours, dadfly. May you all be safe and strong.
You nailed that SO hard.
Kudos
The Feds find their own laws repugnant, some of the time. So they don't enforce them.
Peasants, on the other hand, get the 900 pound angry retarded troll treatment.
The US Department of Justice practiced nullification when it came to Bill Clinton, Lois Lerner, Jon Corzine, Charlie Rangel, its own boss Eric "Dick" Holder and others.
And the entire 0Muslim administration is practising nullification with the immigration laws.
One is Constitutional, the other is not.
When you can justify government ownership and control of land other then specified in the Constitution which this land is clearly not, then you'll have a valid point.
Hmmm. Are the Hammonds Tea Partiers/conservatives?
I can find nothing on them.
Jurys don't generally nullify because they don't like the law but because they don't like the application of the law in a particular case. Besides, it isn't about "defying the will", which jury nullification may or may not do, it's about defying the written law which jury nullification doesn't.
No matter, the jury didn't object here and found the Hammonds guilty.
A judge, who is an officer of the court, ignoring a law is a completely different animal than jury nullification.
Where were the two severely conservative senators Cruz and Rubio all this time?
She has an address. Just saying.
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Well, the federal persecutor did.
I read, finally, that they were "poaching", and "committed arson" to "cover it up".
And then the feral persecutor went into The Big Book of Laws to "find" that they'd "committed terrorism".
Think about that. Ranchers "poaching".
Ranchers shoot vermin all the time. And they had scads of acres to roam around on. Did they need to "poach" because they didn't have enough beef?
That phrase right there describes the people of the united States to a Tee. I have never seen a more slave mentality then most of the population show.
Probably eating these steaks:
BLM Strikes Again, Sets Fire to Ranches in July Kills 80 head of Cattle
PushBack Now I December 5, 2015 I Ammon Bundy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3369785/posts?page=21
I know. It’s mean. They’re both feds, though. Most of the candidates are and won’t bite the hand that feeds them; scratch, maybe-bite, no.
And you know that how?
Juries are the final check on unjust law, the peoples have the final say.
That is why there is such a thing as jury nullification.
Right. So incredible it only shows how desperate their need to lie is becoming.
And that is this case, soup to nuts. Seriously? Terrorism? 5 years? For normal ranching practices?
These are salt of the earth folks. The FedGov wouldn't even have this great "wild life refuge" if the ranchers families hadn't groomed it for cattle since before there was a BLM.
Oh, and where is all the heavy handed enforcement in Colorado where the same FedGov polluted the river in three states?
Bookmark.
They were accused of "poaching" deer.
It sounds like something city folk would say, bless their hearts.
Deer are rats with hooves.
So, the gruberment thinks that Bambi got shot out of season, or whatever. On a ranch, where the deer are competing with beeves for forage. Oh. My. God.
Well, the 900 pound angry retarded troll was on vacation that week. I'm sure he would had dished out the normal treatment, if only he'd been on duty!
Drat the luck!
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