Armed Feds Prepare For Showdown With Nevada Cattle Rancher

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Exclusive interview with Shawna Cox Bundy Trial - Murder of LaVoy Finicum
~ Adam Wagener at the request of his father William Wagener

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Published on Nov 4, 2017 At the request of producer, William Wagener, I travelled to Las Vegas to get this short interview with Shawna Cox, who was riding in the back of the vehicle the day Lavoy Finicum (was he unarmed?) was shot and killed by federal agents at a blockade/ambush. I had a mere 20 minutes of time to talk with Shawna, so here is the entire interview.

I may have misspoke, assuming LaVoy was unarmed. After reviewing the helicopter video footage I can't tell if LaVoy was reaching in his jacket for a firearm, but could you blame him if he was? Some believe that the gun "found" on his person was planted.

In Nevada, according to federal court records, Bundy quit renewing his BLM grazing permits in 1992 – and quit paying the grazing fees. A federal judge ordered him off the BLM land, but a second federal judge ruled last July that Bundy's cattle continued munching away on the allotment and were trespassing on other federal land in Nevada.

Years of conflict between Bundy and the BLM boiled into view last month, when the federal agency moved to round up and remove his cattle. Bundy has steadfastly maintained the federal government doesn't own the ground and he has historic rights to graze.

Would you say that the government is overbearing, or is the Bundy Ranch out of control?

from Las Vegas, NV 11/3/2017 Adam Wagener Associate ProducerOn Second Thought TV

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The Bundy Trial has not gone well for Assistant U.S. Attorney Myhre

Prosecution Scrutinized in Bunkerville Standoff Trial


THIS FAMILY AND GROUP OF PATRIOTS HAVE ALREADY BEATEN THE ODDS. WILL THEIR LUCK HOLD OUT?

November 5, 2017 DOJ, Featured 1

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Prosecution Scrutinized in Bunkerville Standoff Trial

by Shari Doval

The Bunkerville Standoff trial in Las Vegas, Nevada has not gone well for the

The conviction rate for Federal Prosecutions are extraordinarily high, with most years showing higher than 99%. Between guilty pleas and trials, the conviction rate was 99.8% in U.S. federal courts in 2015: 126,802 convictions and 258 acquittals. That wasn’t an anomaly. In 2014 the conviction rate was 99.76% and in 2013 it was 99.75%.

However, in the high-profile Bunkerville Standoff case, the prosecution is lowering the rate considerably.

19 people were indicted and incarcerated over the protest that ended with the Bureau of Land Management releasing Cliven Bundy’s cattle. A few defendants have taken plea offers, notably Blaine Cooper and Gerald Delemus.

The majority of the defendants have chosen to go to trial. The first trial early this year had 6 men facing 10 charges each, including 2 conspiracy charges, for a total of 60 charges. Greg Burleson was convicted of 8 of 10 charges, and was sentenced to 68 years in Federal prison. He was not convicted of the conspiracy charges.

Todd Engel was convicted of two of the lesser charges. He is scheduled to be sentenced in December. The remaining charges for these two men, as well as the other 4 defendants, were declared a mistrial when the jury could not agree on verdicts.

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The prosecution chose to retry the 4 this summer. The second trial ended with full acquittals for Steven Stewart and Rick Lovelein, and a majority of acquittals for Scott Drexler and Eric Parker. Drexler had 2 remaining charges and Parker was left with 4 charges.

The prosecution immediately announced they would go for a third trial against these two men, incorporating their third trial into the trial of the “leaders” of the standoff, Cliven Bundy, two of his sons, Ammon and Ryan, as well as Ryan Payne and internet radio host, Pete Santilli.

The prosecution started offering plea agreements to most of the defendants, including Parker, Drexler, Santilli and Ammon Bundy. Then, the tragedy of October first, the Las Vegas shooting, happened just days before the trial was to begin.

The prosecution immediately withdrew their plea agreements. These men would have to face the jury during the initial aftermath of a city still in shock.

Santilli’s attorney, Chris Rasmussen, worked diligently to work a plea agreement for a single felony count of Conspiracy for his client, which was accepted. Ammon Bundy was offered the same deal, a single felony charge with time served, and he could go home. He refused to negotiate, insisting he would go to trial.

The prosecution, which had initially offered Parker and Drexler misdemeanor plea agreements, tried to coerce Parker into accepting a felony charge, which he adamantly refused. They even tried to tie it to defendant Drexler’s offer, basically telling them that Drexler could not get a misdemeanor if Parker did not accept the felony. The men stood strong, as they had during this entire ordeal, and the prosecution relented. Both men accepted misdemeanor plea agreements.

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This still did not do much for the prosecution’s conviction rate, as they had 2 chances to convict the “Bundy Bridge Sniper” and could not get better than a small misdemeanor charge of obstructing a court order.

“Any person that goes to a protest better be prepared for an obstruction charge. That is the point of going to a protest,” Eric Parker said after the change of plea hearing.

Members of this same Bundy family were acquitted in another high-profile Federal case in Portland, Oregon just last year. This has increased the already enormous amount of pressure Acting US Attorney Steven Myhre is under to obtain convictions on the remaining defendants.

This family and group of Patriots have already beaten the odds. Will their luck hold out? Will prosecutor Myhre, and his inability to gain convictions, continue to be the topic of discussion?
The jury was selected this week in Las Vegas and opening arguments are scheduled to begin on Tuesday morning, November 7^th.

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The Vegas lawyers in the video above ^ don't give a shit about what the constitution says they're just going along with the lies the communists in the government spew. SOB's

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The Vegas lawyers in the video above ^ don't give a shit about what the constitution says they're just going along with the lies the communists in the government spew. SOB's

I think that applies to 90% of all lawyers. Most of them have no idea what the constitution says. They all are educated in communist leaning universities and law schools.

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Sheri Dovale and Shawna Cox report on todays court proceedings ~ J Grady

https://youtu.be/4KmroPqNMV4

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Bryan Hyde, Bundy family’s reporter with more information on the interesting developments in the court today Nov. 7 ~ J Grady

https://youtu.be/Do6y22Z13hY

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John Lamb with his interesting and informative report on todays court proceedings ~J Grady

https://youtu.be/nEOh_BtSYe4

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Bryan Hyde with 3 reports on the Nov. 8 evidentiary hearing ~ J Grady

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John Lamb reporting on evidentiary hearing Nov. 8 ~ J Grady

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Summary of the week’s proceedings at the Bundy Tria

Trial of the Century – Summarizing the Week

Even THOUGH THE FEDERAL WITNESSES HAD SEVERE MEMORY LAPSES, CONTRADICTED EACH OTHER AND ONE POSSIBLY IMPEACHED HERSELF, THE JUDGE SEEMED TO ACCEPT THEIR CREDIBILITY WITHOUT QUESTION.

November 9, 2017 Constitution, Featured, Opinion
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Trial of the CenturySummarizing the Week

byTerry Noonkester

Cliven Bundy, sons Ammon Bundy, and Ryan Bundy, and co-defendant Ryan Payne are accused of conspiring to block federal agents from enforcing court orders when the BLM tried to confiscate Cliven Bundy’s cattle. The cattle were on public land where the ranch had grazing and water rights since the late 1800’s. The government’s actions resulted in the deaths of approximately 100 head of cattle and the destruction of the Bundy’s livestock watering system built throughout the last century.

The four defendants have been incarcerated since January of 2016. They were each charged with 10 felonies. Each man could be sentenced to more than a hundred years in prison for their involvement while resisting the confiscation. The men are brought to court in shackles and each man has had a significant weight loss since their incarceration. All their motions for pretrial releases have been denied.

The twelve jurors chosen for this trial consist of six women and six men. The four alternates consists of three men and one woman. The group is very diverse racially. All prospective jurors with any apparent bias to either side seem to be eliminated. Also eliminated was a juror who stated on a juror questionnaire that the protest was somehow related to Uranium One. Both the prosecution and Judge Navarro where very concerned that he would not be able to put that idea aside to make an unbiased decision. The judge was not concerned about a woman jury who said on her questionnaire that she thought the Bundy’s were guilty. The defense had to use a peremptory strike on that juror.

A continuation of a prior evidentiary hearing was held on November 3rd. The hearing focused on the shredded documents found after the protest in 2014. The defendants think the documents could have contained evidence that would aid the defense and therefore be “discoverable”, which means the government had a legal obligation to share the information with the defendants.

In the prior hearing, Kent Kleman, investigator for BLM, testified that Acting US Attorney in Nevada, and lead prosecutor in this trial, Steven Myhre, not only asked him to investigate this issue, but set the parameters and directed the course of the investigation. Myhre repeatedly objected to this testimony, calling it ‘privileged’. Klemen also testified that he learned of a “hurried shredding event”. He did not pursue investigation diligently by questioning all the people involved, nor did he ask why the shredding was done. Prosecutor Steven Myhre was conveniently absent for the November 3rd hearing. Klemen also may have breached proper protocol when he called each of the witnesses within a week of this testimony on November 3rd. The four witnesses claimed that they did not talk about anything pertaining to the case except that they would probably be called to testify on the 3rd. During the November 3rd hearing, these four witnesses from the Unified Command staff that had been at the ranch, testified repeatedly that they could not recall any shredding. A shredder was on site according to testimony from Randy Lavasseur.

The November 3rd witnesses were (1) BLM Deputy Special Agent in Charge of Nevada and Utah, Zachary Oper, who served directly under Special Agent Daniel Love, (2) U.S. Park Service Chief Investigator Mary Hinson, (3) Captain of United States Park Police, Pamela Smith and (4) Chief Ranger of U.S Park Service, Randy Lavasseur. All these witnesses could remember taking a part in the conference call to Washington D.C. that supposedly lead to the release of the cattle and their own evacuation of the Bunkerville Standoff; but none of the four could recall the name of the person in Washington D.C. that gave the order. None of the four could recall the name of the man that took the notes on the conference call using a laptop computer, nor which agency he was with.

Mary Hinson insisted several times that she did not take any notes of what happened on April 14th. When presented with a five page memorandum she had written about the event by defense attorney Morgan Philpot, prosecutor Nadia Ahmed asked if the defense was going to impeach Hinson.

In a prior hearing, BLM Special Agent Daniel Love testified that the Department of Justice had overridden his authority as the Incident Commander. Daniel Love implicated former US Attorney Daniel Bogden for making the decision to release the cattle that brought an end to the protest. He stated that the order to surrender and release the cows was given immediately after he spoke to Bogden.

During the November 3rd hearing, there was repeated and detailed testimony by witness Mary Hinson about a camera set on the hill overlooking the Bundy home and possibly another camera six miles down the road. This equipment was setup and monitored by the FBI within the Command Trailer. The existence of any camera’s had always been denied until this hearing when Ryan Bundy questioned the witnesses. Randy Lavasseur also testified that he saw the video stream from the cameras. It is expected that the defense will make another motion for evidence from the one or two camera’s in the near future.

Even though the federal witnesses had severe memory lapses, contradicted each other and one possibly impeached herself, the judge seemed to accept their credibility without question. Furthermore, Judge Navarro stated that “just because a piece of paper or video exists doesn’t mean it’s discoverable. It needs to have a particular type of value”. She therefore denied the defendant’s motion for dismissal of the case and she also denied remedial jury instructions.

The press and court observers crowded the courtroom to hear opening statements on November 7th. After a few hours of discussing evidence the prosecution has not provided, the court date has again been delayed. The first day of the trial with the jury present for opening statements has been changed to November 14th, 8:30 am at 333 Las Vegas Blvd S., Las Vegas, Nevada. It is estimated the trial will be three to four months long. Many trial protesters will be on the sidewalk in front of the courthouse, and many more will be watching the proceedings in the courtroom.Please support our coverage of your rights. Donate here: paypal.me/RedoubtNews