BUNKERVILLE STANDOFF:  FEDS GET PRE-TRIAL HEARING DELAY, PLEA DEAL SENTENCING NEXT WEEK

Federal prosecutors said they needed more time to prepare for a "calendar call" pre-trial hearing scheduled for next Thursday February 8th for the four men set to go on trial February 26th in connection with the Bunkerville Standoff.

US District Judge Gloria Navarro so far has indicated that with the massive release of evidence in the third trial, she thinks that Dave Bundy, Mel Bundy, Joe O'Shaugnessy and Jason Woods can get a fair trial.

There are motions on the table to dismiss the charges and to remove the prosecutors in the case (Steven Myhre,  Daniel Scheiss and Nadia Ahmed) because they may be called as witnesses in the fourth trial.

Eric Parker cut a plea deal in the face of his third trial, the one where evidence was finally released exonerating the men accused in the Bunkerville Standoff.

Next Thursday he will be sentenced in connection with his plea deal of guilty on a misdemeanor charge of disobeying a court order.  No more jail time is already guaranteed in the deal.  Parker was jailed for some 18 months without bail.

The jury deadlocked on ten felony charges against him in the first trial which was declared a mistrial.  In the second trial, jurors found Parker not guilty on six of the ten charges and was reportedly 11-1 in favor of acquittal on the others.