BUNKERVILLE STANDOFF BREAKING:  JEFF SESSIONS PROSECUTORS WANT TO RE-OPEN PROSECUTION OF BUNDYS, SUPPORTERS

The US Attorney's office in Las Vegas now headed by Jeff Sessions appointed Dayle Elieson  and the prosecution team in the Bunkerville Standoff case led by Steven Myhre, praised for his work in July 2017 by Sessions, have filed notice they intend to appeal dismissal of charges against key defendants in the case.

In January 2018, US District Judge Gloria M. Navarro cited 'willful misconduct' by the three prosecutors in the case (Steven Myhre, Daniel Schiess and Nadia Ahmed) when she threw out the felony charges against Cliven Bundy, his sons Ammon and Ryan and Ryan Payne in connection with the April 2014 standoff near Bundy Ranch northeast of Las Vegas.

She said in her ruling that massive amounts of evidence that could prove the innocence of the defendants were deliberately withheld by the federal prosecutors.

After accepting the prosecutors word through the first two trials about evidence, her suspicion was aroused in the third when Ryan Bundy, acting as his own lawyer, got a National Park Service official to admit to the existence of a surveillance camera under vigorous cross examination.

She ordered all evidence to be released and it was in the end, massive amounts of information including details of federal SWAT teams and snipers deployed around Bundy Ranch in the days before the standoff.

A statement on behalf of Cliven Bundy was released by judicial activist Larry Klayman that said in part:

"My friend and client Cliven Bundy is confident that the Ninth Circuit will affirm Judge Navarro's dismissal.  It was based on gross prosecutorial misconduct by the Office of US Attorney in Las Vegas as well as lying and deceit by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Bureau of Land Management....."