Bundy brothers refuse to enter pleas in Bunkerville standoff
Bundy brothers refuse to enter pleas in Bunkerville standoff – YouTube
April 15, 2016
Two of Cliven Bundy’s sons refused to enter not guilty pleas Friday to federal charges stemming from the 2014 armed standoff with law enforcement near the Bundy family ranch in Bunkerville.
That forced U.S. Magistrate Judge George Foley Jr. to enter not guilty pleas to 16 felony counts for the two brothers, Ammon Bundy, 40, and Ryan Bundy, 43.
The Bundys and three other defendants — Ryan Payne, 32, Brian Cavalier, 44, and Blaine Cooper, 36 — all were transported by U.S. marshals to Las Vegas from Portland, Ore., where they also face federal charges in the armed takeover of a government wildlife refuge in that state.
Authorities consider all five defendants key players in both confrontations. Cavalier and Cooper are Bundy family bodyguards.
The defendants had fought the transfer because they wanted to resolve their criminal cases in Oregon first. Defense lawyers argued that bringing them to Las Vegas would violate their Sixth Amendment rights to due process and a speedy trial in Oregon.
But both a Portland federal judge and an appeals panel denied their requests.
Nineteen people, including Cliven Bundy, were charged in a 16-count federal indictment in Las Vegas last month in connection with the April 12, 2014, Bunkerville showdown. Two other Bundy sons, Melvin and David, both previously pleaded not guilty and are in federal custody.
The charges include, conspiracy, obstruction, extortion and assault on a federal officer.
The defendants, all of whom are in custody, are alleged to have participated in a “massive armed assault” on Bureau of Land Management officers trying to round up Bundy cattle being grazed illegally on federal land.
The confrontation aimed to force the outnumbered officials to abandon the court-ordered roundup, according to the indictment.
Cliven Bundy, 69, refused to enter a plea to the charges in March, prompting a federal judge to enter a not-guilty plea on his behalf.
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Mike Arnold ~ Thrown Out of Court trying to Support Ammon in 2 Courts
4-15-2016 Arnold Law
Kicked Out for Trying to Support Ammon in Two Courts at the Same Time
I gave Ammon my word that I would be at his hearing in Las Vegas, and while I was in the gallery with the family, I received a message that the court in Oregon set an urgent deadline for submitting documents under seal for Ammon’s case there, and the deadline was today. I had to use my phone to respond, and I wasn’t going to leave court because I had given Ammon my word, and I didn’t want to disrupt the court but walking out. A marshal told me I could not be on the phone and ordered me to leave. I explained who I was, what I was doing, and why, but it made difference — so I stood up and put on the record to the court that I am Ammon Bundy’s attorney in Oregon, and I’m being told to leave because I was working on a motion for the Oregon case. I asked for it to be put on the record because this type of thing is exactly why we object to the Nevada case proceeding at the same time as the Oregon case.
I cannot be in two places at the same time, and Ammon cannot participate fully in his defense when he is being ping ponged back and forth between the far corners of two vast western states. We’ve been dealt a difficult hand in this case — the deck is stacked against us. I was simply playing the hand I’ve been dealt and the rules changed in the middle of the game.
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Edit: Here’s the order that literally came out while Ammon was in court and a response was required to be filed without his input or availability to review BECAUSE HE WAS IN COURT IN NEVADA and clerk’s window in Oregon apparently closes at 4:30. (Ammon still in court as of 5:16 p.m).
ORDER by Judge Anna J. Brown. The Court grants the Motion [415] of Defendant Ammon Bundy for leave to file a Reply on behalf of himself and defendant Ryan Bundy (in further support of his Memorandum in Opposition to Signed Protective Order and Motion to Modify [365]), and to file Exhibits Ex parte and Under Seal in order to preserve confidential work product. The filings permitted by this Order must be made today, 4/15/2016.
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Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2016/04/bundy-brothers-refuse-to-enter-pleas-in.html
is it not interesting that the judge can enter a not guilty plea??? Since in his legal opinion, apparently is that they are not guilty, why not dismiss the charges??? Or is his entering a not guilty plea on their behalf just part of the illusion of justice??
Applicability of the law upon anyone is capricious and arbitrary, anyone who tells you otherwise is either a sociopathic pathological liar or they are so thoroughly indoctrinated that they ignore the facts!
Kangaroo America!