EDITORIAL: Judge bans defense arguments in Bundy retrial
Government prosecutors have a friend in U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro.
The judge is presiding over the retrial of four defendants charged with various crimes stemming from their participation in the 2014 Bunkerville standoff near Cliven Bundy’s ranch. The first trial ended in April with the jury deadlocked on all counts involving the four men.
On Monday, the judge eviscerated the defense’s legal strategy, putting off limits a whole host of issues that might make it more difficult for the government to win convictions. The defendants will be forbidden from arguing that they were exercising their constitutional rights to peaceably assemble and bear arms. They may not highlight the actions of BLM agents in the days leading up to the incident or mention federal gaffes such as the ill-advised “First Amendment” zone created for protesters.
And if imposing these restrictions on the defense wasn’t enough, Judge Navarro ruled that prosecutors may introduce testimony about the four accused men and their associations with so-called militia groups.
Read more at: Las Vegas Review-Journal
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I pray that our POTUS will very soon hear the voice of America’s Patriots and free all of our political prisoners. It is INSANE that we even have a use for those two words – political prisoners. Unless Killary was in or under a jail, then I might reconsider the term.
The NV AG should immediately arrest and remove the judge from office.
Immediately, if not sooner!
It seems to me that this kind of judicial overreach/misconduct eventually invites someone who has reached the breaking point and believes her or she has nothing left to lose to do something stupid and irrational. Lest it be perceived as a threat, I’m just going to leave it at that, but there won’t be any tears shed by me when an out-of-control judge is held accountable by a “jury” of his or her peers. The rule of law cannot be maintained when those charged with upholding and applying the law are dishonest and biased.