Malheur refuge participant convicted in earlier occupation

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Kenneth Medenbach erected cabin on S. Oregon BLM land last year

From KTVZ.COM news sources
POSTED: 6:14 PM PDT April 19, 2016
UPDATED: 6:22 PM PDT April 19, 2016

Kenneth Medenbach ... In May of last year ... delivered a letter to BLM claiming “adverse possession” of 320 acres of federal public lands in Josephine County ...

Medenbach erected a small cabin on public lands along a BLM road and refused to remove it ...

... Medenbach was .. charged with unlawful occupation and illegal camping.

Medenbach argued .. the .. land .. did not belong to the United States because the federal government did not have constitutional authority to possess public lands ...

Medenbach also argued that federal courts did not have authority to interpret the U.S. Constitution ...

http://www.ktvz.com/news/Malheur-refuge-participant-convicted-in-earlier-occupation/39115452

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1. Jury Finds Oregon Man Guilty Of Taking Over Federal Lands

... Medenbach was the first person to be arrested and charged for his role in the occupation, when he drove a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service truck to a grocery store in Burns, Oregon. He faces charges of impeding federal officers and theft of government property in that case ...

http://ijpr.org/post/jury-finds-oregon-man-guilty-taking-over-federal-lands#stream/0

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2. Good

Lock them up