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struggle4progress

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Sun Jul 17, 2016, 12:21 AM Jul 2016

Judge orders evidence in Bunkerville case withheld

Posted July 16, 2016 - 12:44pm
Updated July 16, 2016 - 1:11pm
By JEFF GERMAN
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

... The four-page order, written by U.S. Magistrate Judge Peggy Leen, prohibits defense teams for all 19 defendants from publicly disclosing grand jury transcripts, FBI and police reports, witness statements and other documents the government collected during its investigation ...

In a 23-page decision filed late Friday, Leen explained that the government was within its constitutional authority to obtain a protective order from her because of security concerns in the high-profile case. Among the concerns Leen cited was a death threat against the prosecutors ...

She also said the media and the public do not have a “common law or First Amendment right” to access pretrial evidence obtained by the government.

Leen, however, said all materials the government obtained through “open sources,” during its investigation, including statements made by the defendants on the internet or social media, will not be covered under the protective order and can remain public ...


http://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/judge-orders-key-bundy-evidence-bunkerville-case-withheld-the-public

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Judge orders evidence in Bunkerville case withheld (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2016 OP
Which means there's more going on than what we so far know. L. Coyote Jul 2016 #1

L. Coyote

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1. Which means there's more going on than what we so far know.
Sun Jul 17, 2016, 12:34 AM
Jul 2016

Does this mean one of Trump's alternate delegates won't be publicly shamed just before the convention?

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