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John Lamb with the mid day report from Malheur Protest Trial #2, March 2

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Brand Thornton Who the hell is in charge. Trick or treats from the prosecution

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John Lamb Update #2 for Malheur Protest trial #2 March, 2. Motions Considered, Some charges should be dropped.

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Harney County resident Thom Davis tells about testifying at the Malhuer Protest Trial

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What Judge Anna J. Brown didn't allow in the Malhuer 2 trial this week


Malheur II – What Judge Brown DID NOT Allow This Week


HOW CAN THEY BE FOUND GUILTY OF CONSPIRACY WHEN THOSE THAT THEY ARE SAID TO HAVE CONSPIRED WITH WERE LEGALLY FOUND NOT GUILTY OF THIS CRIME?

March 3, 2017 BLM, DOJ, FBI, Featured, Oregon

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Malheur II – What Judge Brown DID NOT Allow This Week

by Shari Dovale

The prosecution of the second group in the Malheur Protest Trial has had clear assistance with Judge Anna Brown.
She has trimmed the defense witnesses to less than half of their original list.

She has repeated that she will not allow testimony on how nice the people were at the refuge, how clean they kept the refuge, how peaceful it was or even how much safer the refuge was compared to the town of Burns.

She does not like character witnesses for the defendants, so she has either narrowed the scope of their testimony to the point that they need not bother taking the stand, or she flat out said no, they could not testify.

Thursday, she got rather annoyed with the defense that they did not have a ready list of people waiting in the halls for her to rake over the coals. When she asked where the witnesses were, attorney Jesse Merrithew tried very hard to keep calm and polite while explaining that because of her cuts, the full line up of that day’s witnesses were depleted.

Judge Brown has also helped the prosecution in other ways. She has ruled that an excerpt of the interview with former OPB reporter, John Sepulvado, will be played for the jury. Sepulvado is well known for his bias against the protesters, even going so far as to publicly call them nasty names.

Judge Brown has already ruled that Sepulvado will not be required to authenticate his interview, nor explain what parts got cut from the raw footage.

Brown suggested that either side could call Ryan Bundy to the stand to talk about the interview. She must be giggling vindictively over that, as Bundy could not possibly take the stand since he is still under indictment for theft of the government cameras, and is currently preparing to defend himself in the Nevada Bunkerville trial.

Then again, Brown has never seemed overly concerned with the rights of the defendants.

Brand Thornton was ready to testify for the defense, until Judge Brown had a Federal Public Defender come have a chat with him. The prosecution has decided that since Thornton told the court in October that he did not talk to “media” about the case, they will expand the definition to include “social media” and threaten him with prosecution for perjury.

Ah, yes, is this witness intimidation?

The defense now would like to read from Thornton’s October transcript, but of course, the prosecution is now allowed to consider it “tainted testimony”. We will see how Judge Brown handles this one.

Part of Thornton’s testimony would cover the blowing of his “Shofar”. The prosecution would like the jury to believe that he used this as a tool to let others know when the Refuge had been “cleared” of any Federal employees on January 2, 2016. Others have described it as a “Call to Battle” with God leading the charge.

Thornton has repeatedly said that it is part of his Christian ministry. He praises God through his Shofar. Judge Brown is a bit flummoxed, apparently, over this instrument to the point of calling Thornton “Mr. Shofar” in the court record.

Judge Brown pushing the envelope…

The trial last fall acquitted all of the defendants, including Ammon Bundy, Ryan Bundy, Shawna Cox, Neil Wampler, Kenneth Medenbach, David Fry, and Jeff Banta, of all conspiracy charges.

Yet, Judge Anna Brown has continued to refer to them as the “Co-conspirators”. She has, also, allowed the prosecution to refer to them as such.

This brings up several legal questions. First is the fact that this case is called “US vs. Ammon Bundy, et. al.” meaning Ammon Bundy and others. The jurors very clearly ruled out any conviction of “Conspiracy to Impede”, so why are the current defendants even being charged with this crime?

How can they be found guilty of conspiracy when those that they are said to have conspired with were LEGALLY found Not Guilty of this crime?

But, with the Judge and Prosecutors constantly referring to them as “co-conspirators” the jury is being led to believe that these people have been convicted. I wonder if the previous defendants would have enough evidence to bring a slander suit against Judge Brown? It is certainly worth looking into.

What Judge Brown DID Allow.

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THE JURY COULD BE SENT FOR DELIBERATIONS AS SOON AS TUESDAY

March 3, 2017 BLM, DOJ, FBI, Featured, Oregon

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https://i0.wp.com/redoubtnews.com/wp...size=641%2C360Some of the supporters at the Mark O. Hatfield Federal courthouse this week.

Malheur II – What Judge Brown DID Allow This Week

by Shari Dovale

The case of the second group of Malheur Protesters is getting close to the end. The jury could be sent for deliberations as soon as Tuesday, March 7^th.

Witnesses this week included David Duquette, from “Protect the Harvest”, whose interest in the Hammond family had nothing to do with Ammon Bundy. Judge Brown was unsure of allowing him to testify and insisted that his testimony be given out of the jury’s presence before scaling it back tremendously.

Duquette, who produced a video starring Trent Loos, was allowed to testify to seeing no signs of it being unlawful to go to the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in January 2016, but not much else.

Though he stated that he was with actually with the Hammonds during the rally on January 2^nd, Judge Brown ruled that the Hammond information was not relevant in the case.

Thom Davis testified for the defense. Davis, a rancher from Riley, Oregon about 25 miles from Burns, had heard about the rally on January 2^nd, but did not attend. However, he did end up going to the Refuge several times and sympathizing with the Protesters.

Davis, who had already been highlighted in a video during the trial trying to calm down an Arizona environmentalist, ended up being on the Harney County Committee of Safety. Davis repeatedly said during his testimony that the employees from the refuge were not impeded but “They were on vacation,” a reference to the seasonal work common in the northern colder climates.

Davis was able to make a point, to the chagrin of Judge Brown, in that he told the jury that the protesters were “Not Anti-government! Just Anti-Corruption!”

Robert Jones, who traveled from Nampa, Idaho, had his testimony trimmed by Judge Brown to talking about watching Duane Ehmer put away supplies and donations. Though he made at least 3 separate trips to the refuge, he was not allowed to discuss much of his time there.

Michelle Kohler, attorney for Duane Ehmer, called her investigator to the stand to introduce Facebook posts surrounding the governments “Facebook Meme Evidence”. Putting them into proper context was an important step in the defense.

Amazingly, Kohler was also able to sneak into the record a comment that the government has called the protesters “terrorists”. I am surprised that Judge Brown let that one get by her without admonishing the defense, as is typical for her.

Sheriff Thomas Rummel, of Sanders County Montana was allowed to testify, but his testimony was limited to his personal knowledge of Jake Ryan. Having known him for several years, Rummel was only allowed to say that Jake was a very law abiding citizen. “He is the least of my worries in Sanders County,” he stressed to the court.

The longest testimony for the day came from Barbara Berg, who brought her Bible to court for her swearing in. She discussed how she traveled from Winnemucca, Nevada the night that LaVoy Finicum was murdered. Arriving at the RV park known as “The Narrows” she secured a rental trailer. She traveled to the outskirts of the refuge and saw Jason Patrick walking along the road. She gave him a ride to the FBI checkpoint where he turned himself in.

Berg also told of how she went back and saw Jake Ryan, as well. She testified that she took custody of all his weapons and stored them in her rental trailer at the Narrows, where the FBI later retrieved them.

She then took Jake down to the checkpoint and video taped him walking towards the checkpoint with his hands in the air.

When asked about the mood of the people at the refuge that night, she got emotional and started to cry. She explained how tense and scared the protesters were, and afraid for their lives from the FBI.

Berg testified that her point in being at the refuge that night was, in part, to hold the FBI accountable in case of another event like WACO or Ruby Ridge. She was mostly concerned with keeping her friends alive. She was so concerned that she refused to go to the FBI checkpoint herself, as she did not trust them.

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Kenneth Medenbach took the stand this week to tell the jury that it was he, not any of the current defendants, that ordered, made, and placed the signage on the BLM office that said “Closed Permanently”. He also took full responsibility for the signage at the Malheur Refuge that renamed the facility to the “Harney County Resource Center”.
At one point, Judge Brown stopped his testimony, without benefit of an objection from the prosecution. She instructed Medenbach to limit his testimony. He first replied that he took an oath to “tell the truth, the WHOLE truth, and nothing but the truth.”

Judge Brown threatened him to have his entire testimony thrown out if he continued, and Medenbach then agreed to scale it back. However, it did initiate the government to request written instructions to the jury on the defense of “Adverse Possession” not being a legal doctrine in this courtroom.

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Duane Ehmer inside the Federal Courthouse. Photo by Conrad Wilson, OPB

The highlight of the week for many supporters was the admonishment of the court media darling, Conrad Wilson of OPB. After Judge Brown repeatedly slapped down defendant advocates to not taking ANY photos inside the courthouse, Wilson decided he must have been above the ruling. I can understand his confusion, as he is usually the only person allowed to slide into court after it has begun.

However, he blatantly took a photo of Duane Ehmer in his patriotic sportcoat and posted it all over social media. Judge Brown was not happy and admonished him for his presumption.

FBI informant Will Kullman has been avoiding testifying, though he received a defense subpoena in December 2016. Jesse Merrithew had begun the process to have Judge Brown sign an arrest warrant, which she indicated she was inclined to do. The prosecution refused to assist the defense in locating this witness.

The warrant has been stopped, as Kullman has agreed to testify on Monday.

Subpoenas were also issued for Fabio Minnogio and Allen Varner, though there has been no word on the status of their testimony.

Witnesses for Monday should include Brandon Rappola, Michele Fiore, and Kullman, as well as Blaine Cooper’s father, Stanley Hicks Sr. and his step-mother, Linda Hicks. Coopers’ mother and step-father have declined to testify for the defense.

What Judge Brown DID NOT Allow.

Stupid is as Stupid Does ~ Kenneth Medenbach identifies nearly all of the FBI investigative team who searched the Malheur Refuge for evidence after the protesters were arrested.

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Kelli Stewart was able to visit Ammon Bundy while he was in Portland to testify. She asked him "What did Blaine Cooper Lie about on the stand?". She tells Ammon's answer in this video

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Kelli Stewart posted this brief update from Monday March 6 morning court proceedings. S. Sgt Moe (Maureen Peltier) made a longer video presentation that has not been uploaded to youtube yet. I will post it once it is on youtube

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Facebook link to SSgt. Moe's Video Report on the Malhuer Protest 2 Trial Morning March 6

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