Prosecutors oppose defense bid to remove judge from Bundy case

By JEFF GERMAN
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

Federal prosecutors filed court papers Tuesday ripping into the efforts of Cliven Bundy and his lawyers to disqualify Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro from his criminal case.

Prosecutors argued that the Bundy defense team offered no proof of bias, but rather a “mishmash of inferences drawn from speculation and innuendo.”

They urged Navarro not to recuse herself from the high-profile case.

“Conspiracy theories should not support recusal motions and the court should refuse the invitation to engage in them here in order to draw inferences that run counter to everyday experience,” prosecutors wrote ...

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