Good day all. Do you remember the Bundy family and the plans by the Bureau of Land Management to come in and basically destroy his family ranch? It lead to an armed standoff between the Federal government and several thousand heavily armed citizens.
In the end, the BLM turned tail and ran. Of course, this happening during the Obama regime, the Bundy’s defiance could not be allowed to stand. This led to a number of criminal charges and trials, all of which blew up hard in the faces of the federal prosecutors. Now, the final case has been laid to rest, and the Department of Justice was slammed hard by the judge hearing the case. Here are the details from The Washington Times. (Paywalled):
Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy could have spent the rest of his life in jail, but instead he walked away Monday a free man, the case against him and his sons thrown out over what the judge decried as “outrageous” misconduct by federal prosecutors.
In a stunning rebuke, U.S. District Court Chief Judge Gloria Navarro scolded the prosecution for violating the due process rights of the four defendants — Cliven Bundy, his sons Ammon and Ryan, and Ryan Payne — and dismissed the case “with prejudice,” meaning they cannot be retried on felony conspiracy and firearms charges stemming from the 2014 Nevada standoff.
“The court finds that the universal sense of justice has been violated,” said Judge Navarro, appointed to the bench by President Barack Obama in 2010, as reported by the Arizona Republic.
Needless to say, Cliven Bundy and his family were rather happy that this fiasco was finally over.
“How am I feeling? Well, I tell you, I’ve got my sweetheart beside me and I’m feeling pretty good,” said Mr. Bundy in video posted by KSNV-TV in Las Vegas. “I’m not used to being free, let’s put it that way. I’ve been a political prisoner for right at 700 days today.”
Basically, Mr. Bundy and his family were political prisoners. There has been extensive writings on what happened and there is no real need to go back over it. You can search this site or the internet to find out the details. Long story short, the BLM and other agencies flat out abused their authority. What they never counted on was their force being met with citizen force. Someone figured out that of the BLM continued being stupid, and a shot was fired, it would have probably led to a whole sale massacre of 300+ federal agents, and they finally pulled out.
He insisted, “I come in this courtroom an innocent man, and I leave an innocent man.”
Next, the judge on this case lowered the boom on the Department of Justice.
The dismissal brought a dramatic close to the high-profile case three weeks after Judge Navarro declared a mistrial, citing the prosecution’s willful withholding of evidence related to the armed standoff with the Bureau of Land Management at the Bundy ranch near Bunkerville.
The decision also comes as the latest and most devastating in a series of failures for the Justice Department in its ongoing battle against the Bundys and their supporters in trials in Nevada and Oregon.
Judge Navarro admonished the government for “flagrant prosecutorial misconduct” and withholding “potentially exculpatory” evidence, including FBI logs on surveillance and sniper activity, threat-assessment reports indicating that the Bundys were not dangerous, and internal reports about misconduct involving BLM agents.
The DoJ, and the alphabet soup of federal law enforcement agencies under their purview, have been abusing their authority for decades. The worst case was the Branch Davidian debacle. We also have the case brought against the late senator Ted Stevens, (R-Alaska), that was nothing but a political trial with the intent to get the Senator and clear the way for his Democrat opponent.
Stevens was convicted of corruption, but on appeal, evidence came out regarding the deliberate hiding of exculpatory evidence that would have cleared him. The judge in the case, Federal judge Emmet G. Sullivan ordered a hearing and what came out was explosive. It was so bad, that the new Attorney General, the utterly corrupt Eric Holder, had no choice but to submit a “Motion of The United States To Set Aside The Verdict And Dismiss The Indictment With Prejudice.” Basically admitting that the DoJ had railroaded an innocent man. In an article on Wikipedia:
On April 7, 2009, federal judge Sullivan formally accepted Holder’s motion to set aside the verdict and throw out the indictment, declaring “There was never a judgment of conviction in this case. The jury’s verdict is being set aside and has no legal effect,” and calling it the worst case of prosecutorial misconduct he’d ever seen.
He also initiated a criminal contempt investigation of six members of the prosecution. Although an internal probe by the Office of Professional Responsibility was already underway, Sullivan said he was not willing to trust it due to the “shocking and disturbing” nature of the misconduct.
He was right to not trust the Obama/Holder Justice Department. They took a bad situation and made it far worse. The Special Counsel came back and was not kind to the criminals masquerading as Federal Prosecutors.
The investigation and prosecution of U.S. Senator Ted Stevens were permeated by the systematic concealment of significant exculpatory evidence which would have independently corroborated Senator Stevens’s defense and his testimony, and seriously damaged the testimony and credibility of the government’s key witness.
As to what happened to the prosecutorial team that tried to railroad an innocent man? As I recall, nothing. They weren’t fired, let alone charged or disbarred. I guess Holder thought he might need a pack of thugs to go after other innocent people, like the Bundy’s. Continuing from the Washington Times report:
Ian C. Bartrum, professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas law school, said he was struck by the judge’s reproof, noting that “she didn’t mince words in her criticism of the government,” and characterized the dismissal as a clear victory for the Bundys and their fight against federal lands policy.
“The judge’s decision plays like a vindication for at least part of the Bundy’s claims — that the government has been overzealous from the beginning on this case,” said Mr. Bartrum in an email. “The roundup was overkill, the charges were overkill, and the prosecution’s behavior was, in the judge’s words, ‘outrageous.’ That’s a pretty big win for the Bundys politically, which is where all the land stuff will eventually play out.”
Of course, you also have the Pro-statist, totalitarian moonbats who are very unhappy with the successful defense by the Bundys against the corrupt agencies of the Federal Government.
Kieran Suckling, executive director of the Center on Biological Diversity, blamed the Justice Department for bumbling the prosecution.
“Federal prosecutors clearly bungled this case and let the Bundys get away with breaking the law,” said Mr. Suckling in a statement. “The Bundys rallied a militia to mount an armed insurrection against the government. The failure of this case will only embolden this violent and racist anti-government movement that wants to take over our public lands.”
I did a quick lookup of Suckling. He is appropriately named. He’s never done an honest days work in his entire life. Basically, he is a classic totalitarian and seems to want nothing less then the virtual extermination of the Human race, with a few notable exceptions, number one being, himself.
I get the feeling he would have welcomed a full blown gun battle between the Bundy’s, their supporters and the federal agents. Being a moron, I doubt he considered what the outcome may have been. He probably saw it as another Waco massacre and that the Bundy’s property would be expropriated, “For the animals.” I doubt he thought that there was a chance that the federal agents might have been wiped out. (That was the lesson learned from Waco. If it starts, it goes to the knife and the hilt.
In any case, someone else at the highest federal levels appears to have also learned that lesson and ordered the bug out of the BLM. They went to phase two, which was to railroad the Bundy’s into prison. Sadly for the Department of InJustice, they failed again.
When President Trump took office, he made one big mistake. He gave in to politics and appointed Jeff, “Sleepy” Sessions as the United States Attorney General. Instead of cleaning up the mess left by Obama, Holder and Lynch, he decided to take a nice long nap. After the midterms, President Trump decided the time had come and fired him. Hopefully, the new Attorney General, William Barr, will look at this and all the other malfeasance inside the DoJ and clean house…with a flamethrower if needed.
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