BUNKERVILLE STANDOFF:  SESSIONS APPOINTS INTERIM US ATTORNEY IN LAS VEGAS

Word from Washington Wednesday January 3rd was that Attorney General Jeff Sessions was using his power to appoint 17 interim US Attorneys across the nation.

Sessions has designated Dayle Elieson as Interim US Attorney for the District of Nevada.

She will assume that post Friday January 5th meaning that lead Bunkerville prosecutor Steven Myhre, whom Sessions praised profusely during a Las Vegas visit last July for his "leadership" and "standing for the law" among other things, will no longer be Acting US Attorney.

The announcement says that Mr. Myhre will resume his previous role as First Assistant US Attorney when Elieson takes over Friday.

Dayle Elieson is a graduate of Brigham Young University's J. Reuben Clark Law School and has 20 plus years of prosecutorial experience.

Defense attorneys in the Bunkerville case expect the prosecution to appeal any dismissal of the Bunkerville case by US District Judge Gloria Navarro and Myhre's arguments before the judge's decision next week point to that.