Standoff prosecutors treating case like 'spaghetti western,' defendant argues #BundyTeaParty
By Maxine Bernstein | The Oregonian/OregonLive
on August 10, 2016 at 2:45 PM, updated August 10, 2016 at 9:09 PM
... Medenbach and his co-defendants don't want refuge workers to testify about their "subjective fears'' ...
The defendants will argue that federal law enforcement officials told refuge employees not to go to work ...
Medenbach characterized the U.S. Department of Interior's estimate of more than $6 million in costs from refuge destruction as "puffed up damages." He and his co-defendants will ask the court to bar the prosecution from entering hundreds of exhibits of guns and ammunition found at the refuge or with occupiers.
"It wants to stack one lawfully purchased and lawfully possessed firearm on top of another in the Courtroom, look over the top of the pile at the jury, and yell, 'Convict these men!' Whether these guns belonged to any of the defendants does not matter to it,'' Medenbach's brief said. "It wants to take protected political speech and substitute it for evidence'' ...
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