Ammon Bundy adds another Utah attorney to his defense team
By ROBERT GEHRKE | The Salt Lake Tribune connect
First Published 1 hour ago • Updated 24 minutes ago
Ammon Bundy has added a second Utah defense attorney — white-collar crimes lawyer Marcus Mumford — to his legal team working to prove that Bundy did not break the law when he and fellow anti-federal-government protesters staged an armed occupation of an Oregon wildlife refuge.
Mumford is the counsel to the Utah Republican Party ...
"We're talking about fundamental issues of whether a citizen can assert their rights regarding the public lands without being accused of a conspiracy," Mumford said. "The prosecution appears to be more politically motivated than motivated by criminal law" ...
"There was no brandishing or anything," he said. "We're talking about the distinctions the law has to make. It can't be illegal just because you go in to establish an adverse possession claim against the government and you happen to be open carrying; that doesn't make it an armed invasion" ...
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