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Oregon militants cast by defense as victims of corrupt government
Source: Reuters
U.S. | Tue Oct 18, 2016 | 11:19pm EDT
Oregon militants cast by defense as victims of corrupt government
By Scott Bransford | PORTLAND, ORE.
The six men and a woman charged with conspiracy in seizing a U.S. wildlife center in Oregon were staging a legitimate protest manipulated by the government through informants who infiltrated the group, a defense lawyer argued at their trial on Tuesday.
In protesting what they saw as a form of tyranny, the defendants themselves became victims of a government campaign to discredit and criminalize a larger movement opposed to federal control over millions of acres of public land in the West, Marcus Mumford argued.
Mumford, whose client, Ammon Bundy, led the armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon, summed up the defense case in federal court in Portland where Bundy and six others have stood trial since mid-September.
His closing argument followed the prosecution's summation and weeks of testimony by government and defense witnesses, some of whom took part in the 41-day occupation.
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Oregon militants cast by defense as victims of corrupt government
By Scott Bransford | PORTLAND, ORE.
The six men and a woman charged with conspiracy in seizing a U.S. wildlife center in Oregon were staging a legitimate protest manipulated by the government through informants who infiltrated the group, a defense lawyer argued at their trial on Tuesday.
In protesting what they saw as a form of tyranny, the defendants themselves became victims of a government campaign to discredit and criminalize a larger movement opposed to federal control over millions of acres of public land in the West, Marcus Mumford argued.
Mumford, whose client, Ammon Bundy, led the armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon, summed up the defense case in federal court in Portland where Bundy and six others have stood trial since mid-September.
His closing argument followed the prosecution's summation and weeks of testimony by government and defense witnesses, some of whom took part in the 41-day occupation.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-oregon-militia-idUSKCN12I2RX
