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struggle4progress

(118,290 posts)
Thu Sep 22, 2016, 10:34 PM Sep 2016

Judge threatens Ammon Bundy's attorney with contempt - #BundyTeaParty

by Stuart Tomlinson, KATU News

Judge Anna Brown threatened refuge occupier leader Ammon Bundy’s attorney Marcus Mumford with contempt and a $1,000 fine if he continued to bring up the circumstances of Lavoy Finicum's death Thursday in U.S. District Court ...

Near the end of the standoff, Fry told Lohmeier on recorded conversations that he "was not coming out of here alive. We are armed to the teeth" and "I will force you to kill me."

Banta told Lohmeier that half of the people at the refuge had "screws loose" and that there were a lot of people there "I would not put a lot of stock in."

Rancher Andy Dunbar, whose ranch abuts the refuge, also testified that he and his son used binoculars to observe occupiers in the refuge fire lookout tower. On the second day, they used higher powered binoculars and could see that two men in the tower were pointing rifles at them ...


http://katu.com/news/local/refuge-occupier-trial-sparks-fly-as-judge-threatens-ammon-bundys-attorney-with-contempt

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Judge threatens Ammon Bundy's attorney with contempt - #BundyTeaParty (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2016 OP
Ammon Bundy’s attorney threatened with contempt struggle4progress Sep 2016 #1
Rancher Describes His View Of The Malheur Occupation struggle4progress Sep 2016 #2
good for the judge... chillfactor Sep 2016 #3
Lawyer should watch out for the fines BlueSpot Sep 2016 #4

struggle4progress

(118,290 posts)
1. Ammon Bundy’s attorney threatened with contempt
Thu Sep 22, 2016, 10:36 PM
Sep 2016

KOIN 6 News Staff
Published: September 22, 2016, 9:33 am
Updated: September 22, 2016, 4:57 pm

... During questioning of Dunbar by Ammon Bundy’s attorney Marcus Mumford, Judge Anna Brown threatened to hold him in contempt of court because he was asking questions about LaVoy Finicum’s death. Brown had previously issued an order over how Finicum’s shooting can be addressed in front of the jury.

She threatened to fine Mumford $1,000 for each question he asks about the circumstances of the shooting in front of the jury ...


http://koin.com/2016/09/22/fbi-agents-rancher-testimony-expected-thursday/

struggle4progress

(118,290 posts)
2. Rancher Describes His View Of The Malheur Occupation
Thu Sep 22, 2016, 10:38 PM
Sep 2016

by Conrad Wilson Follow , Bryan M. Vance Follow , and Bradley W. Parks
Sept. 22, 2016 6:57 a.m.
Updated: Sept. 22, 2016 5:26 p.m. | Portland

... Dunbar’s testimony created a narrative of how the occupation unfolded from someone literally on the outside looking in. Dressed in a plaid shirt tucked into blue jeans with a large belt buckle and hat hair, Dunbar explained the occupation’s effect on his daily life on the ranch.

This came the same day U.S. District Court Judge Anna Brown threatened to hold Ammon Bundy’s attorney, Marcus Mumford, in contempt of court.

The warning came while the jury was in recess. Brown took issue with Mumford when he began asking questions about the circumstances surrounding the Jan. 26 fatal shooting of Robert “LaVoy” Finicum during cross-examination of Dunbar ...


http://www.opb.org/news/series/burns-oregon-standoff-bundy-militia-news-updates/oregon-standoff-trial-fbi-agents-rancher-testimony/

BlueSpot

(855 posts)
4. Lawyer should watch out for the fines
Thu Sep 22, 2016, 10:46 PM
Sep 2016

I fully expect the Bundy clan to not pay the bill when it's all over. That's just how they roll.

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