BUNKERVILLE STANDOFF: HIGH NOON DEADLINE FOR US ATTORNEY TO TURN OVER INFO ON FBI SNIPERS, CAMERAS, LAWSUIT AGAINST SESSIONS
Acting US Attorney Steve Myhre and his team have until 12 Noon today (Saturday November 11th) to turn over to defense lawyers information related to any armed federal officers deployed around Bundy Ranch during the protests that led to the Bunkerville Standoff.
They also have to provide details about the operation of a surveillance camera or cameras by the FBI during the protests in March and April 2014 around Bundy Ranch.
US District Judge Gloria Navarro issued the order Wednesday after the US Attorney's office sent documents to defense lawyers mentioning the armed federal officers conducting "surveillance" around Bundy Ranch and a National Park Service employee revealed the FBI live feed from a surveillance camera, with Mr. Myhre offering few details initially about the camera or cameras used.
Judicial activist Larry Klayman has filed a lawsuit alleging prosecutorial misdonduct against the Justice Department and FBI including Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray on behalf of Cliven Bundy.
Klayman wants the Justice Department to investigate any destruction of evidence or withholding of evidence by the government in the case.
Good for Klayman.
Very few have been willing to take a stand about the conduct of this case. One Congressman, Raul Labrador, of Idaho, offered a tepid letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions that spoke of a "possible miscarriage of justice" in the case.
Some Republicans in New Hampshire have made noises about Jerry DeLemus. DeLemus was co-chair of Veterans for Trump during the New Hampshire Primary who pled guilty for his role in Bunkerville.
Judge Navarro slapped an 87 month (7 and a quarter year) sentence on him, more than the prosecutor wanted (six years). She called him a "vigilante bully".
The noise made about DeLemus by grassroots activists only was able to get him put in a federal prison in Massachusetts near his wife to serve his sentence.
Meanwhile, Washington D.C. is putting up a statue of former Mayor Marion Barry, who famously was caught on video tape smoking crack with a hooker while mayor. Not to be outdone Baltimore has installed a statue of street heroin dealer Freddie Gray in their city.
ReplyDeleteDeLemus, meanwhile, is a formenr US Marine, his wife was a two-term GOP Representative to the New Hampshire House, and he was a Trump delegate at the 2016 convention. I wonder whether those were some of the 'sentence enhancers' that judge Gloria Navarro took into consideration.
Judge Navarro was selected as a Federal Judge by former Sen. Harry Reid, and appointed by Obama.
There's plenty of politics to go around. The ball is in the court of the Republicans from Jeff Sessions on up to the White House. Will they back off the prosecution and issue pardons or not?
Delete