a hung jury
(again)
No Guilty Verdicts In Bundy Ranch Standoff Trial
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/...ial/592019001/
A federal jury in Las Vegas did not return any guilty verdicts Tuesday against four men
accused of conspiracy and weapons charges for their roles in the 2014 Bundy Ranch standoff.
Jurors returned not guilty verdicts on some counts
and deadlocked on others
after four days of deliberation,
delivering a second surprising defeat to federal prosecutors in the case.
Jurors notified U.S. District Court Judge Gloria Navarro on Tuesday that they had reached an impasse on several counts,
and the defendants were called into court at 2 p.m. when the verdicts were returned.
Richard Lovelien of Oklahoma
Eric Parker,
Steven Stewart
O. Scott Drexler, all of Idaho,
were being
retried
on conspiracy, extortion, assault and obstruction charges
for helping Cliven Bundy fend off a government roundup of his cattle
in what became known as the Battle of Bunkerville.
A jury in April deadlocked on charges against the four men.
It convicted two other defendants on multiple counts.
But
the jury could not agree on conspiracy charges — a key component of the government’s case — against
any of the six.
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