OREGON STANDOFF: JEANETTE FINICUM EXPLAINS LAWSUIT, LAWSUIT DETAILS, DEFENDANT WANTS NEW TRIAL
"Our number one goal was to preserve life, not to overreact....There was no overreach in the federal government's response to this occupation."
Acting US Attorney In Oregon Billy Williams comments on first Oregon Standoff trial, he is now nominated by President Trump to be permanent US Attorney there (Maxine Bernstein "Oregon Live" 10/30/2016)
"...our family has filed this wrongful death (lawsuit) for justice and accountability for my husband, LaVoy Finicum. We want to see justice in his name for the murder that they committed."
Jeanette Finicum speaks with Bryan Hyde 1/26/2018
"The knowingly, willful misconduct by the BLM as well as the AUSA in Nevada regarding anything Bundy related or associated raises huge concerns and red flags as to the potential actions of the BLM, AUSA and other agencies in the Oregon case."
Oregon Standoff defendant Jason Patrick's motion for discovery evidence from Bunkerville case
Jeanette Finicum spoke with Bryan Hyde of "Who's Next" yesterday after a lawsuit was filed in federal court in Oregon over the murder of her husband LaVoy Finicum January 26th, 2016.
She said:
Named in the suit among others are the former FBI special agent in charge in Portland, Greg Bretzing, the FBI Hostage Rescue team agent W. Joseph Astarita, the unnamed officer/officers of the Oregon State Police who fired the fatal shots (the name/names remain an official secret), Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, former Senate Democrat leader Harry Reid of Nevada, Harney County, Oregon Sheriff Dave Ward and Harney County Commissioner Steven Grasty.
The lawsuit says among other things:
Kieran Suckling of the Center for Biological Diversity is angered by the suit that includes his organization. Suckling told "OregonLive" his group intends to seek dismissal of the case against it calling it an attack on "free speech".
She said:
"...all of us should want to hold our government accountable for the wrongdoing because it is not just our family that is affected, it is everyone that will be affected sooner or later. We need to put them back in their rightful boundaries. We need to hold them accountable for the bad actors that they hire and encourage them to rehabilitate them or fire them...."
Named in the suit among others are the former FBI special agent in charge in Portland, Greg Bretzing, the FBI Hostage Rescue team agent W. Joseph Astarita, the unnamed officer/officers of the Oregon State Police who fired the fatal shots (the name/names remain an official secret), Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, former Senate Democrat leader Harry Reid of Nevada, Harney County, Oregon Sheriff Dave Ward and Harney County Commissioner Steven Grasty.
The lawsuit says among other things:
"These defendants were mentally predisposed and committed to using excessive lethal force, to solve a political dispute. The result has been both haunting and tragic."
"On January 26, 2016, at approximately 4:40 p.m., decedent Robert LaVoy Finicum was fatally shot three times in the back, assassination style, by one or more militarized officers of the Oregon State Police and/or FBI"
"It has also been uncovered that the above-captioned defendants participated directly with and/or willfully aided and abetted a pattern of widespread and systematic corruption within portions of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), the Department of the Interior, Office of Law Enforcement and Security ("OLES"); and the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management ("BLM"), where state and federal employees engaged in the intentional premeditated targeting of LaVoy Finicum and others (as described in more detail below) because of 1) his association with Cliven Bundy and Bundy family memebers; 2) his membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; and 3) his political views and statements regarding land rights and federal government overreach-specifically his consistent political activism and statements that were critical of the BLM."
Portland Attorney Lisa Ludwig, who was involved in the Oregon Standoff trials including standby counsel for Ryan Bundy who defended himself, is joining J. Morgan Philpot, who represented Ammon Bundy in the Bunkerville case, in the lawsuit.
Meanwhile Jason Patrick, who faces sentencing next month for his conviction in the second rigged Oregon Standoff trial, has filed a motion for a new trial citing the evidence withheld in the Bunkerville case. His standby attorney, Andrew Kohlmetz, assisted him in the filing.
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