BUNKERVILLE STANDOFF: HOME FOR CHRISTMAS? PROSECUTORS FACE INTERNAL INVESTIGATION
The Bunkerville Standoff defendants on pre-trial release face restrictions but these have been loosened for the Christmas and New Year's holidays for Ryan Payne and Ammon Bundy.
Payne will be in Montana with his fiancee' and children, Ammon Bundy will be at Bundy Ranch and at a home in Las Vegas with his wife and children.
Cliven Bundy remains in jail, awaiting the ability to be totally free without any restrictions.
Others convicted or who entered guilty pleas are also in jail for Christmas.
Greg Burleson, Todd Engel and Jerry DeLemus are prisoners in connection with Bunkerville.
Burleson was convicted in the first trial and US District Judge Gloria Navarro slapped a 68 year sentence on him. We now know that massive amounts of evidence were withheld from that trial, but Judge Navarro wasn't listening to the notion and deliberately restricted defense arguments to prevent self-defense or freedom of speech as arguments.
Also convicted in the same rigged first trial was Engel. He could theoretically be sentenced to 30 years in prison based on the two counts he was convicted on. But its time now for him to be set free if ever there was along with Burleson. Todd Engel is being held without bail awaiting sentencing at this point.
Then there's the Marine from New Hampshire, Jerry DeLemus. DeLemus was co-chair of Veterans for Trump during the New Hampshire Primary last year. His house was raided after the primary at dawn and Jerry DeLemus was taken to Las Vegas, where he probably unwisely decided to plead guilty. DeLemus was unable to withdraw his plea and faced Judge Navarro for sentencing.
Navarro spoke out and branded him a "vigilante bully" and gave him 87 months instead of the six years (72 months) proposed by the prosecution.
Jerry DeLemus is at the Devens federal prison in Massachusetts, living in the same lockup as Anthony Weiner and Weiner is only doing 21 to 27 months so we all know who gets out first.
And of course, Harney County, Oregon ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond remain imprisoned at the Terminal Island federal prison in Long Beach, California.
The Hammonds were sent back to federal prison for a second time in January 2016 to serve mandatory five year terms as "terrorists" when the federal government determined they must serve the heavier sentence because lighting a backfire to protect your land from a brush fire and touching federal land in the process is an "act of terrorism".
Their return to prison led Ammon Bundy to initiate the Oregon Standoff protest on January 2, 2016 for which he was found not guilty on October 27th that year by a jury in Portland.
Burleson was convicted in the first trial and US District Judge Gloria Navarro slapped a 68 year sentence on him. We now know that massive amounts of evidence were withheld from that trial, but Judge Navarro wasn't listening to the notion and deliberately restricted defense arguments to prevent self-defense or freedom of speech as arguments.
Also convicted in the same rigged first trial was Engel. He could theoretically be sentenced to 30 years in prison based on the two counts he was convicted on. But its time now for him to be set free if ever there was along with Burleson. Todd Engel is being held without bail awaiting sentencing at this point.
Then there's the Marine from New Hampshire, Jerry DeLemus. DeLemus was co-chair of Veterans for Trump during the New Hampshire Primary last year. His house was raided after the primary at dawn and Jerry DeLemus was taken to Las Vegas, where he probably unwisely decided to plead guilty. DeLemus was unable to withdraw his plea and faced Judge Navarro for sentencing.
Navarro spoke out and branded him a "vigilante bully" and gave him 87 months instead of the six years (72 months) proposed by the prosecution.
Jerry DeLemus is at the Devens federal prison in Massachusetts, living in the same lockup as Anthony Weiner and Weiner is only doing 21 to 27 months so we all know who gets out first.
And of course, Harney County, Oregon ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond remain imprisoned at the Terminal Island federal prison in Long Beach, California.
The Hammonds were sent back to federal prison for a second time in January 2016 to serve mandatory five year terms as "terrorists" when the federal government determined they must serve the heavier sentence because lighting a backfire to protect your land from a brush fire and touching federal land in the process is an "act of terrorism".
Their return to prison led Ammon Bundy to initiate the Oregon Standoff protest on January 2, 2016 for which he was found not guilty on October 27th that year by a jury in Portland.
Meanwhile, "Oregon Live" published a story Friday from reporter Maxine Bernstein that notes when a judge finds prosecutors have willfully withheld discovery evidence in violation of the 1963 Brady ruling from the Supreme Court (as Judge Gloria Navarro has), an internal investigation is triggered.
The news report says that Acting US Attorney Steve Myhre, along with Assistant US Attorneys Daniel Schiess and Nadia Ahmed could be reprimanded or suspended.
But many are of the opinion that much more needs to be done to the prosecutors and others from the FBI and Bureau of Land Management for their actions related to the case.
"Redoubt News" has published a story about the evidence hearing testimony last month from Mary Jo Rugwell, a former BLM officials who handled matters involving Bundy Ranch.
Rugwell testified she had no knowledge who had water rights on the grazing land Cliven Bundy used but there is a paper trail that shows Rugwell trying to have Bundy's water rights on the land taken away back in 2008.
The news story points to the notion that Rugwell committed perjury in her testimony.
The news report says that Acting US Attorney Steve Myhre, along with Assistant US Attorneys Daniel Schiess and Nadia Ahmed could be reprimanded or suspended.
But many are of the opinion that much more needs to be done to the prosecutors and others from the FBI and Bureau of Land Management for their actions related to the case.
"Redoubt News" has published a story about the evidence hearing testimony last month from Mary Jo Rugwell, a former BLM officials who handled matters involving Bundy Ranch.
Rugwell testified she had no knowledge who had water rights on the grazing land Cliven Bundy used but there is a paper trail that shows Rugwell trying to have Bundy's water rights on the land taken away back in 2008.
The news story points to the notion that Rugwell committed perjury in her testimony.
(UPDATED INTO SUNDAY MORNING)
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