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   A federal appeals court in San Francisco has denied the Justice   
   Department's motion for a retrial in the case against Nevada   
   rancher Cliven Bundy, who led an armed standoff against federal   
   agents over cattle grazing near his ranch in 2014.   
      
   The decision Thursday comes more than two years after Bundy, two   
   of his sons and Montana militiaman Ryan Payne walked out of the   
   federal courthouse in Las Vegas as free men. The government's   
   case collapsed after a mistrial in which prosecutors were   
   admonished for failing to turn over evidence and for not   
   disclosing the existence of surveillance camera footage and   
   federal snipers stationed by Bundy's house near the town of   
   Bunkerville.   
      
   In May, federal prosecutors argued that any missteps they made   
   in the original trial were inadvertent. But in the latest   
   ruling, 9th Circuit judges ruled the lower court acted within   
   its authority in dismissing the indictments against Bundy and   
   his co-defendants, while also barring the criminal complaints   
   from being refiled.   
      
   Bundy's attorney, conservative activist Larry Klayman, said the   
   family is relieved that "this nightmare is over."   
      
   "After two years of illegal incarceration, [my client] had to   
   endure a sham and fraudulent trial where exculpatory evidence   
   was hidden," Klayman said in a statement.   
      
   The latest ruling is not seen as much of a surprise, according   
   to legal observers who have long accused the federal government   
   of bungling the case against the rancher and his supporters.   
      
   Despite a litany of federal court decisions and widely held   
   legal opinions, Bundy has refused to recognize federal control   
   of public lands in Nevada, where his cattle have grazed   
   illegally in and around the Lake Mead National Recreation Area   
   since the 1990s.   
      
   The federal Bureau of Land Management has long maintained Bundy   
   owes more than a million dollars in unpaid grazing lease fees.   
   The latest case against Bundy began during the Obama   
   administration. In the Trump era, his trial had initially been   
   overseen by an acting U.S. attorney in Nevada. President Trump   
   later pardoned two Oregon ranchers whose fight with federal land   
   managers had inspired a separate armed standoff involving the   
   Bundy family in Oregon in 2016.   
      
   The pardon by Trump was widely seen as a signal that prosecuting   
   the Bundys was no longer a top priority.   
      
   https://www.npr.org/2020/08/06/899886777/federal-appeals-court-   
   upholds-dismissal-of-cliven-bundy-case   
       
      
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