Montana man to serve as 'volunteer paralegal' for Ryan Bundy - #BundyTeaParty
By Maxine Bernstein | The Oregonian/OregonLive
on August 23, 2016 at 6:33 PM, updated August 23, 2016 at 7:26 PM
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown allowed Montana resident Roger L. Roots, a convicted felon, to serve as a volunteer paralegal for Bundy and his standby counsel.
Roots, a Libertarian candidate for Montana's secretary of state who is allowed to practice law in Rhode Island, has a controversial past.
Two years ago, he told Montana's Sidney Herald that he was turning away from a youth filled with racism and anti-Semitism to be a champion for individual liberties ...
Around age 19, he was sentenced to 51 weeks in prison for resisting arrest and violating his probation in Florida. In 1992, he was sentenced to 20 months in federal prison for possession of an unregistered firearm. Authorities located two rifles and a pistol in his dorm room at Northwest Community College in Wyoming, according to legal documents ...
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/08/montana_man_roger_roots_to_ser.html