Protesters gather at the Bureau of Land Management's base camp, where cattle that were seized from rancher Cliven Bundy are being held, near Bunkerville, Nevada April 12, 2014. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management on Saturday said it had called off an effort to round up Bundy's herd of cattle that it had said were being illegally grazed in southern Nevada, citing concerns about safety. The conflict between Bundy and U.S. land managers had brought a team of armed federal rangers to Nevada to seize the 1,000 head of cattle. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart (UNITED STATES - Tags: ANIMALS CIVIL UNREST AGRICULTURE CRIME LAW)
August 6, 2020 /Local News

US Appeals Court Denies Bid to Resurrect Bundy Standoff Case

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A U.S. appeals court has refused to resurrect the criminal case against states’ rights figure Cliven Bundy and family members stemming from a 2014 armed standoff with federal agents trying to round up Bundy cattle around the family ranch in Nevada.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Thursday denied prosecutors’ efforts to overturn U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro’s decision to stop a months-long trial in January 2018, declare prosecutorial misconduct and dismiss the criminal indictment so it could not be re-filed.

Bundy, sons Ryan and Ammon Bundy and Montana militia leader Ryan Payne had faced life in prison but were set free after nearly two years of detention ahead of trial.

Bundy, 74, maintains the federal government has no authority over state lands. He continues to refuse to pay decades’ worth of government grazing fees for his cows in what is now Gold Butte National Monument, about 80 miles (129 kilometers) northeast of Las Vegas.

“They still say I’m trespassing,” Bundy told The Associated Press on Thursday. “These feds came in here and overreached on my land and my ranch. We’re willing to go through what we’ve had to to defend our rights and the constitution and freedom.”

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