Vegas shooting delays Ryan Payne's Bundy trial

[struggle4progress]

October 19, 2017 NEWS

By Alex Sakariassen

The mass shooting in Las Vegas on Oct. 1 has created a wrinkle in the trial of an Anaconda man. Ryan Payne, the self-styled militia leader who drove his Jeep Cherokee from Montana to Nevada in April 2014 to defend rancher Cliven Bundy, asked a Vegas judge this month to delay court proceedings for fear that the recent shooting deaths of 58 people might bias prospective jurors. Las Vegas, Payne's public defenders wrote in a legal motion Oct. 2, "is in mourning."

"In time, the community's justified shock and outrage about this tragedy may subside enough to allow a fair trial," the motion concluded. "Right now, however, the wounds are too fresh."

District Judge Gloria Navarro granted Payne's request Oct. 6, moving his trial date to Oct. 30.

Payne faces a list of charges in Nevada, including conspiracy and threatening a federal law enforcement officer. These stem from his involvement, in 2014, in the so-called Bunkerville standoff—an armed confrontation with the Bureau of Land Management over Bundy's cattle. Payne's co-defendants in the Nevada case include Cliven Bundy and his sons Ryan and Ammon. Payne pleaded guilty to lesser charges in a separate case earlier this year stemming from his involvement in the 41-day armed occupation of Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge ...

https://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/shooting-delays-bundy-trial/Content?oid=5298886

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Judge Navarro

did the right thing. Bundy and his Gang of Militia misfits will get their day in Court. There is a underlying thing that goes unreported that could upset this trail. That being,a certain BLM person who the Bundy Family and others in the American Independence Party movement,blame for their wows. That person being a fellow by the name of Love. Understand he has been fired or relieved from his position at the BLM. He being one of the Operational People involved with the Bundy illegal land use and enforcement of a Judges order calling for the Round up of Bundy's Cattle illegally Grazing on the Arizona Strip.

Judge Navarro has this under control despite what Right Wing Media claims. White Nationalist Movement want her to go down in flames over this Case and others yet to be heard.

[Initech]

2. Mourning for what? Did he know Steven Paddock?

[hellacia]

5. Mesquite NV is only 5 miles from Bunkerville

Which is a redoubt for the Bundys and other sovereign citizen idiots.

The fact that there's been no mention of this in news reports I've seen seems suspicious to me. Paddock's violence fits right in to their white wing power fantasies. There is much more here than the "authorities" want to admit.

[Initech]

6. I really wonder how much these militias know each other.

And whether or not Steven Paddock was a member of one. I would think a guy who knew as much about guns and gun laws as he did would have been a part of one. I'm surprised this angle of the investigation hasn't been played yet.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. The trial is now set for Oct 30?

As if a few days means anything. I'm sure the defense was hoping for a 6-12 month delay.

[janx]

4. A lot more has been going on with this trial than I was aware of.

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Guess I'll have some catching up to do. Thanks for posting.