Posted on 11/14/2017 1:56:17 AM PST by Nextrush
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 disrupted a Utah cattle auction site and threatened to stop the government's seizure of his father's cattle in Nevada "by force" in early April 2014. But Bundy was denied an opportunity to during a previous hearing to call the sheriff to rebut the prosecution's allegation.
By the end of the day, the judge gave Ryan Bundy the green light to be transferred to a local halfway house Monday night. She never explained in open court the reason she changed her mind from last week....
The judge, though, ruled that his younger brother Ammon Bundy must remain in custody, along with co-defendants Cliven Bundy, his father, and Ryan Payne.....
Much of the pretrial hearings Monday and last week focused on federal law enforcement surveillance of the Bundy ranch preceding a retreat by federal agents and rangers on April 12, 2014........
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The defendants really need to get some god legal help to get this case dismissed.
The people who abused them in the private prison need to be sent to prison themselves.
They beat them!
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