BUNKERVILLE STANDOFF: FOUR MEN FACING TRIAL NEXT MONTH WANT CHARGES DISMISSED, SESSIONS JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SHOWS NO SIGNS OF BACKING DOWN

Four men set to go on trial next month in the fourth Bunkerville Standoff trial have filed a motion asking US District Judge Gloria M. Navarro to dismiss the charges.

Judge Navarro had said that it was alright for the four (Dave Bundy, Mel Bundy, Joe O'Shaughnessy and Jason Woods) to go on trial next month because the hidden evidence she used to dismiss charges for the four defendants in the third trial is now out in the open.

Lawyers for the four men argue that all the events surrounding the first three trials from the conviction of Greg Burleson and Todd Engel in the first trial, the removal of defendant Eric Parker from the witness stand as he testified in his own defense in the second trial and the dismissal of charges with prejudice in the third trial all justify the dismissal of the charges.

Last week defendant Dave Bundy filed a motion calling for the prosecutors to be removed from the case because they are potential witnesses in his upcoming trial.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions praised the work of lead prosecutor Steve Myhre, whose political identity is Republican, when Sessions visited Las Vegas last July.   He claimed Myhre was "standing for the law" in the case and gave kudos for Myhre's "leadership" in the case.

One wonders why the Justice Department of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the new interim US Attorney for Nevada appointed by him, Dayle Elieson, have not acted to withdraw the case because of the outrageous behavior of the prosecutors outlined by Judge Navarro in her recent dismissal of charges in the third trial.

Tomorrow Cliven Bundy is set to speak at the Old Paradise School Gym in Sanders County, Montana at 5pm.   He will present a message on 'Freedom and Property".    There will be others speaking including a member of the state legislature and Shawna Cox, one of the people involved in the Oregon Standoff protest.