The Bundy brothers, along with a number of armed followers, took over a wildlife refuge in rural Oregon for 41 days during January and February of this year. “It’s stunning. It’s a stunning victory for the defense,” Robert Salisbury, attorney for defendant Jeff Banta, told reporters. “I’m speechless.” As the Christian Science Monitor’s Gretel Kauffman reported in September, the older Bundy brother also drew attention by referring to himself as an “idiot” in one court motion.
After only five days of deliberation, a jury found seven occupiers of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, including Ammon Bundy and Ryan Bundy, not guilty of federal conspiracy and weapons charges Thursday afternoon.
The Bundy brothers, along with a number of armed followers, took over a wildlife refuge in rural Oregon for 41 days during January and February of this year. The occupiers say they were protesting tyrannical federal land-management policies, which has led…
