Payne Explains Why He Wants To Reverse Guilty Plea - #BundyTeaParty

By AMANDA PEACHER, CONRAD WILSON
Originally published on October 24, 2016 7:43 pm

... The plea deal Payne originally struck with prosecutors recommended he spend somewhere between 41 and 51 months in prison. He was facing a conspiracy charge that carries a maximum of six years in prison and a $250,000 fine ...

Payne said his responses when he originally entered his guilty plea were equivocal. When U.S. District Court Judge Anna Brown asked if he actually impeded federal officials, he responded, “as it has been presented to me, it is my understanding that I did” ...

Brown will likely decide whether or not Payne can withdraw his plea after the jury has issued a verdict for the other occupiers. If she agrees, Payne could go to trial with the remaining defendants in Oregon, a case scheduled for mid-February. Or he might first be tried in Nevada for the Bunkerville charges along with Ammon and Ryan Bundy. That trial is schedule to occur concurrently with the second Oregon case ...

"The public defenders are absolutely advising me that I should not talk to the media," he said. "Everything that I could say, the government will try to misconstrue it to use against us in court" ...

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