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The 'retrial' for the four hung jury defendants started today. Andrea Olson-Parker tells what they will be facing. The communist judge ruled in favor of the pesecution at the last minute. The defense had to request additiinal time for preparatiin because of the short notice. New rules for the protesters on the sidewalk . . . .
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Fully Informed Jury Assosiation posted the Las Vegas Review Journal's link to the Bundy Retrial. Carol Bundy in the foto.
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"Prosecutors for the U.S. attorney’s office, which declined to comment for this story, have tried in recent legal filings to limit what sort of evidence defense lawyers can introduce at trial. Their primary concern is to control the constitutional rights narrative.
In a motion filed last month, Nevada Acting U.S. Attorney Steven Myhre asked the court to prevent defense lawyers from “seeking to persuade jurors to acquit … based on political beliefs or values rather than upon the evidence.”"
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Jury selection crucial in Bunkerville standoff retrial
Another trial in the Bunkerville standoff case opens Monday in Las Vegas.
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Jury selection crucial in Bunkerville standoff retrial
Another trial in the Bunkerville standoff case opens Monday in Las Vegas.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/wp-con...-apr25bt01.jpgCarol Bundy, second right, wife of rancher Cliven Bundy, and her daughters Stetsy Cox, left, and Bailey Louge, second left, read the jury's verdict outside the Lloyd George U.S. Courthouse on Monday, April 24, 2017, in Las Vegas. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
https://www.reviewjournal.com/wp-con...parker_web.jpgEric Parker from central Idaho aims his weapon from a bridge as protesters gather by the Bureau of Land Management's base camp, where cattle that were seized from rancher Cliven Bundy were being held near Bunkerville, on April 12, 2014. (Jim Urquhart/Reuters)
Another trial in the Bunkerville standoff case opens Monday in Las Vegas, but instead of trying a new set of defendants, prosecutors will launch their second attempt to win convictions against four men accused of conspiring against the government with rancher Cliven Bundy.
The retrial follows a mistrial in April, when jurors deadlocked on 50 of the 60 counts against the first batch of defendants in the three-part case. Prosecutors eventually plan to try 17 men on charges resulting from the April 2014 armed standoff between individual rights activists and Bureau of Land Management agents, who came to Bunkerville to seize Bundy’s cattle from public land.
The hung jury did not come as a surprise to local court observers, who previously have said that the trial against the first group hinged on ideological issues that typically are not litigated inside a courtroom. In a 2 million-population metropolitan area built in the middle of a desert, federal jury pools draw people from rural and urban areas — with different political views, policy priorities and perceptions of law enforcement.
“Every case is about jury selection, but this one is specifically about jury selection,” said attorney Jess Marchese, who represents defendant Eric Parker. “Either you’re going to be OK with Eric Parker on a bridge with his gun or you’re not. And one thing I will do is embrace that more.”
By framing the cattle impoundment operation as an issue of federal overreach and police violence, the Bundy family used the internet to draw hundreds of protesters who espouse libertarian-minded, individual rights principles.
Protesters clashed with federal agents in the days leading up to the standoff, and Parker testified in the first trial that he drove to Bunkerville after seeing online postings that led him to believe constitutional rights were under threat. In the days that preceded the standoff, agents erected a First Amendment zone for protesters in the middle of the desert and used stun guns and police dogs to control angry protesters.
Awaiting judge’s ruling
Prosecutors for the U.S. attorney’s office, which declined to comment for this story, have tried in recent legal filings to limit what sort of evidence defense lawyers can introduce at trial. Their primary concern is to control the constitutional rights narrative.
In a motion filed last month, Nevada Acting U.S. Attorney Steven Myhre asked the court to prevent defense lawyers from “seeking to persuade jurors to acquit … based on political beliefs or values rather than upon the evidence.”
Myhre asked for a broad ban on what represented the marrow of the defense case in the first trial. His motion sought to block testimony about First and Second Amendment rights, police conduct in the days leading up to the standoff and Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval’s criticism of BLM agents’ actions prior to the standoff.
U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro has not ruled on the motion.
The government is expected to condense its case the second time around. Two of the first six defendants, Gregory Burleson and Todd Engel, were convicted, so there are fewer defendants in the second trial. Prosecutors also whittled down their lists of witnesses.
New government witness
But they added another weapon to their arsenal with the addition of defendant Blaine Cooper as a government witness. Cooper pleaded guilty in the case and was scheduled for sentencing last week. His sentencing hearing was postponed, leading some people in legal circles to speculate that he negotiated a deal with the government that offered him leniency in exchange for testimony.
Still, defense attorneys remain optimistic as they head into the first day of jury selection.
“I realize that typically retrials are better for the government,” Marchese said. “But this is a unique case, because it wasn’t as if our defense was ever any kind of secret. The government knew where we were coming from from day one.”
Parker’s friend Scott Drexler, also was photographed on the highway with a gun — and his lawyer too expressed confidence.
“As we saw in the last trial, the government had an exceedingly difficult time in communicating their case to the jury,” said attorney Todd Leventhal, who represents Drexler. “That’s because linking our clients to any crime or conspiracy is just not supported by the facts. I imagine the same will hold true in round two.”
Contact Jenny Wilson at jenwilson@reviewjournal.com or 702-384-8710. Follow @jennydwilson on Twitter.
Andrea Olson-Parker and Niel Wampler with the afternoon developments in the Bundy Ranch Retrial
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In the second part of this video Andrea Parker says something about Attorney General Sessions coming to Las Vegas. The the audio and the visual are both bad in the video I am not sure if she said it was positive that Sessions to coming to Las Vegas. Bundy positive? From what I have read about Sessions I don't think he has much regard for the Constituion.
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Ryan Bundy's letter to the Idaho Political Prisoner Foundation set up by AnthonymTomas Dephue
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From a Bundy Ranch/Property rights facebook. Never more truth than what this man, Russ Hinds, wrote,
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Cindy Osmer-Eckles Banks MORE BS, MR PRESIDENT TAKE THESE OBAMA THUGS DOWN
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Russ Hinds Your neighbors who work for the government love you. They are heroes protecting you from the Bundys.
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Cindy Osmer-Eckles Banks THE BUNDYS ARE THE KINDEST, DEAREST PEOPLE I HAVE EVER MET. THE ENTIRE ACTION AGAINST THEM WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. WE NEED TO BE PROTECTED FROM THE DEEP STATE, NOT THE HONEST HARD WORKING BUNDYS.
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Russ Hinds I was being sarcastic while at the same time making a true statement about how your neighbors who work for the government think.
Now, what do we do about our out of control neighbors who work for the government? That question has needed to be asked for the last fifty years...
There has been a deliberate dumbing down of your neighbors since the Bible and prayer were taken out of government schools. Your neighbors who work for the government schools have been teaching generations that the government is the highest authority on the planet, instead of teaching the Laws of Nature and Nature's God being the Highest Authority on the planet.
I just zeroed in on the root of the problem... What now?
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I missed this yesterday, Fox News interviewed Andrea Olson-Parker
Retrial begins for four Bundy supporters from 2014 armed standoff
Posted on July 10, 2017 by Doug Knowles
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By Andrew Craft Published July 10, 2017 Fox News
Jury selection began Monday for a retrial of four men accused of conspiring against the government when they joined an armed protest with Cliven Bundy on his Nevada ranch in 2014.
Eric Parker, Scott Drexler, Steven Stewart and Ricky Lovelien were present during a tense confrontation in Bunkerville between Bureau of Land Management agents who were trying to seize cattle from Bundy.
The case centers around constitutional issues including free speech and land and gun rights. The U.S. attorney’s office for the state of Nevada would not comment on pending litigation.
The retrial follows a mistrial that occurred this past April when jurors couldn’t decide on the first group of defendants in a three-tier case.
Two defendants pleaded guilty last year were found guilty during the first trial, but jurors still didn’t determine 50 of the 60 counts that were brought up leaving four men with no verdict. Prosecutors initially separated the case into three groups based on culpability with a total of 17 defendants. The first trial involved conspirators deemed the least responsible.
No shots were fired in the armed standoff, but the indictment claimed protesters pointed guns at federal agents. The federal indictment said Bundy was under a 1998 court order demanding he remove his cattle from federal lands. Bundy and his supporters said they believed the government was far too encroaching, violating their free speech and gun rights.
“The Bundy’s and their group, I see that, that’s key, but the group of protestors they’re going after so aggressively, that’s where I have trouble making the connection, “ said Ron Bamieh, a former Justice Department prosecutor who questions the federal government’s strategy.
Bamieh added there are significant political implications as a jury is chosen in this case. “There are going to be some people who are like wait these guys are white nationalists who are against the government, we don’t support that. There’s going to be other people who are going to say no, these are patriots who are opposing the federal government that is overreaching completely and limiting these other people rights.”
Cliven Bundy, his sons Ammon and Ryan, and two other defendants are due for trial later this year. Prosecutors phased out separate trials since it would be logistically impossible to try 17 people at once.
Andrew Craft is a Fox News multimedia reporter based in Las Vegas, Nevada . Follow him on twitter:
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No updates from the Bundy Retrial. Bundy Supporter Doug Knowles who writes ItMattersHowYouStand.com postedon his facebook that AG Jeff Sessions will be in Las Vegas between 8:00 and 9:00 tomorrow morning.
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Doug Knowles added 3 new photos — attending Trial It a second time - Bundy Ranch P3s at Las Vegas Federal Courthouse.
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Tuesday 7-11-2017. 2nd Day of Jury Selection. Reminder! Tomorrow Wednesday 7-12-2017 Jeff Sessions will be here between 8-9 am. We need as many supporters as possible by 7:30 am. We want to have signs out when he arrives and leaves. Thanks.
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Robert Crooks I will see you then!...07:30
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Jody Milam TRYING..
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Rene Brakefield I hope he is there to look at the corruption
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Las Vegas Review-Journal Feederal Judge Rules Bundy's defence will be limited
Retrial in Bunkerville standoff case opens with jury selection
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A federal judge dealt a blow to defense lawyers in the Bunkerville standoff case Monday with an early-morning ruling that obliterates the strategy they used in the first trial this year.
The order, from U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro, came hours before prosecutors and defense attorneys started selecting a jury for the retrial against four men accused of conspiring against the government with rancher Cliven Bundy. In April, a jury deadlocked on all counts against Eric Parker, Steven Stewart, Scott Drexler and Ricky Lovelien.
Prosecutors characterize the defendants as violent zealots whose blatant disregard for the rule of law put hundreds of lives in danger. Defense attorneys, meanwhile, describe their clients as passionate but peaceful protesters who, during the April 2014 standoff, exercised their constitutional rights against a militant federal law enforcement presence.
But much of that defense narrative was invalidated Monday by Navarro’s ruling, which amounts to a blanket ban on evidence that comprised the heart of the strategy in the first trial.
“It changes the landscape of where we need to go with our defense, but it doesn’t change the government’s high burden to prove the case,” said defense attorney Todd Leventhal, who represents Drexler. “Despite this uphill battle, we’ll keep fighting.”
Defense attorneys no longer will be allowed to argue that their clients were exercising their First and Second Amendment rights to freely assemble and to bear arms when, in April 2014, they brought their guns to the site where federal agents tried to round up Bundy’s cows.
“The law does not recognize these amendments as legal defenses to the crimes charged,” Navarro wrote.
The order also prohibits defense lawyers from calling people to testify about federal agents’ actions in the days leading up to the standoff, when law enforcement officers used stun guns and police dogs to control angry protesters. Such actions led the Bundy family to issue a call to arms on social media, in which they implored other individual rights activists to drive to the family ranch.
Defense attorneys had argued that they should be allowed to bring in that sort of evidence in order to prove their clients’ “non-criminal state of mind” when they tossed their guns in their cars and drove to Bunkerville to join the ballooning protests.
But Navarro wrote in her ruling that if “evidence is not relevant to any of the elements of a charge or a cognizable defense to that charge, the evidence is not admissible.”
For the same reason, the defendants are prohibited from arguing that they brought their weapons for self-defense against an excessively forceful police presence. The four men are charged as “gunmen,” accused of supplying the force behind a conspiracy to stop the cattle seizure.
The government also was handed a victory Monday when, in a separate order, Navarro ruled that prosecutors can introduce evidence related to the defendants’ prior association with militia groups.
The lengthy process of selecting a jury started Monday and is expected to last several days. Parker, Stewart, Drexler and Lovelien are being tried on charges of conspiracy, assault, threats, extortion and related counts for their role in the 2014 standoff between gun rights activists and federal agents.
Defense attorneys Jess Marchese, Rich Tanasi and Todd Leventhal — the lawyers for Parker, Stewart and Drexler — came to court Monday dressed in matching ties, which were emblazoned with passages from the U.S. Constitution. On each tie, the phrase “We the People” was highlighted in large, bold font.
Contact Jenny Wilson at jenwilson@reviewjournal.com or 702-384-8710. Follow @jennydwilson on Twitter.
The judge’s ruling specifically prohibits defense attorneys from mentioning the following:
-Officers’ encounters with civilians during the arrest of Dave Bundy, the rancher’s son, a week before the standoff.
-Officers’ encounters with Margaret Houston, a middle-aged grandmother who was tackled to the ground by a BLM agent days before the standoff. Prosecutors argue Houston was in the way of an oncoming truck; defense attorneys contend the force was excessive.
-Testimony about the level of force used by law enforcement officers. In the days leading up to the protest, law enforcement officers used stun guns and police dogs to control the crowds. On the day of the standoff, federal police armed themselves, donned SWAT gear, and assumed military “stacking formation.”
-A statement that Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval issued four days before the standoff, in which he condemned federal agents’ actions.
-References to First Amendment zones. Days before the standoff, federal agents cordoned off a First Amendment zone for protesters in the middle of the desert.
-Arguments about Bundy’s grazing, water or legacy rights on the public lands. Bundy let his cattle roam free on public lands for decades but refused to obtain grazing permits. He maintains that the federal government does not have jurisdiction over the land.
-First and Second Amendment rights to freely assemble and to bear arms.
-Punishments the defendants may face if convicted of the offenses.