Bundy son suing US officials for Nevada standoff prosecution
LAS VEGAS — A rancher's son now campaigning as an independent for Nevada governor filed a lawsuit Wednesday against current and former U.S. government officials, alleging malicious prosecution after a 2014 armed standoff with federal land agents.
Ryan Bundy and his father, Cliven Bundy, said outside the U.S. courthouse in Las Vegas that prosecutors tried to wrongfully convict them for peacefully stopping a roundup of Bundy cattle by U.S. authorities from federal land near the family ranch in Bunkerville.
"The federal government unlawfully retaliated against my family for defending our rights by stacking criminal charges against us" and others, Ryan Bundy said of the five Bundy family members and 14 supporters who faced charges that could have brought decades in federal prison.
Charges were dismissed in January against most defendants by a federal judge in Las Vegas who found intentional and willful prosecutorial misconduct.
Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro said the government failed to disclose to defense lawyers evidence that Bureau of Land Management agents and the FBI had provoked the Bundy family into calling supporters to their defense by acts including "insertion and positioning of snipers and cameras surveilling the Bundy home."
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