Malheur Occupation Trial Could Last For Months

[struggle4progress]

By CONRAD WILSON • 14 HOURS AGO

... Speaking during a pre-trial status hearing Wednesday in Portland, Brown said she still wanted the trial of Ammon Bundy and the other occupiers to begin Sept. 7. But she also discussed how the court would manage breaks for holidays, including Thanksgiving and Christmas, if necessary ...

Brown said jury selection would likely draw on a pool of 1,500 people, although where those people would come from hasn't yet been decided ...

... occupiers Jason Patrick and Duane Ehmer expressed interest in representing themselves in the case ...

Ammon Bundy's lead attorney, Mike Arnold, also complained that his client and Ryan Bundy ... should get more "rations" in jail ...

http://nwpr.org/post/malheur-occupation-trial-could-last-months

[sharp_stick]

1. I think this will be fun to watch

these Sovereign citizen nutjobs are like a circus.

I hope they all manage to spend several years in Federal prison when it's all over so we can forget that any of them existed.

[jberryhill]

2. more "rations" in jail

WTF is it with these guys and snacks?

[KT2000]

3. hope this will be televised

so all the nuts out there who consider doing something like this know what is in their future too.