Posted on 04/04/2017 5:05:38 AM PDT by Nextrush
Lawyers representing rancher Cliven Bundy's supporters accused a judge of eviscerating their defense case Monday by effectively prohibiting several planned witnesses from testifying.
U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro's ruling blocks witnesses from testifying about federal authorities' actions in the days before the 2014 Bunkerville standoff between protestors and Bureau of Land Management agents who tried to seize Bundy's cattle from public land. Law enforcement officers' actions were expected to be a cornerstone of the defense case in the conspiracy trial; the ruling so affected the strategy that defense lawyers asked for an evening to reassess before they call witnesses......
Previous legal filings have revealed that defense attorneys intended to argue their clients were not the aggressors, but acted in self-defense against a militant and excessively forceful police presence. In the pre-standoff days, videos showing the law enforcement officers using a stun gun on two of Bundy's sons and tackling a middle-aged woman were circulated widely on social media.
But Navarro sided with the federal government when she ruled that testimony related to authorities' pre-standoff behavior was "irrelevant......
(Excerpt) Read more at reviewjournal.com ...
She was refusing to allow defense witnesses to testify and refusing to allow testimony from those abused by law enforcement during the standoff.
Navarro even spoke of the defendants in terms of being 'bank robbers' according to trial observer John Lamb clearly revealing a bias in her "Kangaroo Court of Southern Nevada".
John Lamb said in a video he posted yesterday that the potential witnesses were being intimidated and threatened with prosecutors speaking of an 'ongoing investigation' suggesting more people might be arrested or charged.
The Obama US Attorney for Las Vegas has resigned but the acting US Attorney there now and lead prosecutor in this case is Steven Myhre.
When does the justice come from Washington and the new Attorney General Jeff Sessions to shut this prosecution and persecution down?
Link to story:
“When does the justice come from Washington and the new Attorney General Jeff Sessions to shut this prosecution and persecution down?”
When indeed? Nothing but crickets from Washington. This really bothers me.......
John Lamb and Andrea Parker video update from yesterday at the trial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsVJQFu_hO8
Under the video
“We need everyone to pick up their phones NOW! US Department of Justice AG Jeff Sessions 1-202-514-1555”
Dr. Martin Luther King was certainly glad when the candidate John F. Kennedy got him out of jail during the election campaign in 1960.
But he expected more of President John F. Kennedy on race and when it didn’t happen, non violent civil disobedience was in full swing in the South making JFK an enemy of MLK.
The FBI was sent out to spy eventually on MLK’s hotel rooms.
I voted for Donald J. Trump and wish him the best but we need justice now starting with the Hammond’s who jailing as terrorists (mandatory five year sentence) brought Ammon Bundy, LaVoy Finicum and others to the Oregon Standoff last year.
Then we need justice for others convicted in Oregon, for those charged in Nevada right now and sitting in prisons (around two dozen in total).
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
The Department may be contacted by phone at the following:
Department Comment Line: 202-353-1555
Department of Justice Main Switchboard: 202-514-2000
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If the Government controls what Charges are to brought forward
and if the Government decides which evidence can be introduced
and if the Government decides which witnesses can testify
What exactly is the Purpose of Having a Trial at all???
Another #FakeJudge just dictated what the peasants are going to do in a Texas voter ID case, overruling the government's dropping of the case.
This stuff is just nuts, and there's going to be an over-reaction in the opposite direction.
Paging Joe Stalin....
Those Videos of the Tazing
We’re the Call to Arms of
The Patriots!
BKMRK My anger and disgust at this travesty know no bounds.
The “Judge” is a 2009 Obammy appointee.. suhprize suhprize.
The “Judge” is a 2009 Obammy appointee.. suhprize suhprize.
Sometimes you just have to...
Suck One.
Placate the public.
No way. When you've got large numbers of armed law enforcement coordinating an ambush—or whatever you'd like to call it—that's highly relevant to a defendant who seeks to claim self-defense, among other things, as a result of what ensued.
Well, at least no one's being railroaded...
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