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struggle4progress

(118,295 posts) Sun Feb 7, 2016, 02:24 PM Feb 2016

Ethical Questions Surround Ammon Bundy's Legal Team

By ANNI KATZ • 7 SECONDS AGO

... Ammon Bundy's Eugene-based attorneys, Mike Arnold and Lissa Casey, say Bundy didn't contact their firm. Rather, Casey says she traveled to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge to meet the militants face-to-face about a week after the armed occupation began.

That action could potentially violate Oregon bar rules that prohibits attorneys from soliciting clients by phone, electronic contact or in person.

The rule specifically prohibits solicitation if one of the driving motivations for the attorney is financial gain ...

... now that an indictment has been issued against Bundy and 15 others, Casey says the firm is charging for its services ...

http://klcc.org/post/ethical-questions-surround-ammon-bundys-legal-team

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Ethical Questions Surround Ammon Bundy's Legal Team (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 2016 OP

Apparently the 'free legal advice' was to make sure the underlings did the lawbreaking emulatorloo Feb 2016 #1

When the Judge moved to hold certain persons over Wellstone ruled Feb 2016 #2

emulatorloo

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1. Apparently the 'free legal advice' was to make sure the underlings did the lawbreaking

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sun Feb 7, 2016, 02:36 PM

Feb 2016

Not not Ammon or other leadership.

From a similar Oregon Public Broadcasting article

Ethical Questions Surround Ammon Bundy’s Legal Team, Strategy
by John Sepulvado, Conrad Wilson, and Rob Manning OPB | Feb. 5, 2016 2:16 p.m. | Updated: Feb. 5, 2016 6:33 p.m.

http://www.opb.org/news/series/burns-oregon-standoff-bundy-militia-news-updates/legal-ethics-ammon-bundy-lawyer-oregon-refuge-occupation/

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Militant Leaders Ordered Young, New Recruits to Break Laws

Another question hanging over the case is whether attorneys advised militant leaders to pin certain crimes on younger militants and new recruits.

Before he was arrested, Ryan Bundy said attorneys gave him and other occupation leaders lists of laws to steer clear of breaking. Ammon Bundy also said that attorneys had inventoried potential legal violations, and had given the militant leaders a list of laws they believed were being broken.

An OPB reporter saw militant leader Ryan Payne, who headed the security team at the refuge before he was arrested, giving orders to young militants.

Some of them had arrived at the refuge hours before and were new to the group.

Payne was also seen stopping now deceased militant Robert “LaVoy” Finicum from getting into a white, federally owned truck.

“You don’t do that, have them do that,” Payne said as he pointed a new arrival who went by the name of “Joe.”

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Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

2. When the Judge moved to hold certain persons over

Reply to emulatorloo (Reply #1)

Sun Feb 7, 2016, 02:50 PM

Feb 2016

without bail,till Feb.24,and the Bumper Chasers tried to spin it,you could smell something was not kosher.

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