Live Updates: Bundy Ranch Trial
This week’s off the midway small tent wingnut watch will be the Bundy trial - SPLC is live updating throughout the trial so you might want to mark this post from them.
The trial was scheduled to begin October 3 in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas, but was delayed four weeks because two days earlier a gunman, firing from a high-rise hotel in the city, shot and killed 58 concertgoers and injured 546 others.
U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro, who ordered the postponement over the objection of Cliven Bundy, said it would be difficult to find jurors who could “concentrate and focus” on the Bunkerville conspiracy case in the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
That issue likely will be raised again when prospective jurors for the Bundy trial are questioned by the trial judge and defense attorneys. Jury selection could take a few days. The trial — scheduled Mondays through Thursdays — is expected to last six to eight weeks.
Courtroom theatrics by some or all of the four defendants seem guaranteed.