And, this current article where I first saw his name:
Evidence in Oregon standoff case immense, including 6,000 hours of video
By Maxine Bernstein OregonLive June 15, 2016
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/06/disocvery_in_oregon_standoff_c.html
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Evidence in Oregon standoff case immense, including 6,000 hours of video
By Maxine Bernstein OregonLive June 15, 2016
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/06/disocvery_in_oregon_standoff_c.html
As U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown pushes ahead to begin selecting a jury in September for the federal conspiracy trial in the takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, defense lawyers have raised concerns about the volume of evidence they need to decipher and their need to know more.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Ethan Knight said he anticipated it will take the government three to four weeks to present its case.
Jury summonses have gone out and several hundred people have responded that they'd be available, the judge said.
Brown is convening a work group to figure out how to lay out a courtroom to allow so many defendants to be tried at once and save some room in the gallery for spectators.
"I'm pushing us all hard because I respect the right asserted by the parties to a speedy trial and a fair trial,'' Brown said during a monthly status hearing Wednesday. "Just because the record includes a lot of information, doesn't mean it can't be done.''
Defense lawyers have said the evidence received so far is staggering: 6,000 hours of video, more than 13,000 photographs, up to 250,000 pages of Facebook account information and more than 40,000 pages of FBI reports.
They're also pushing the federal government to release additional information: the investigative reports regarding the FBI Hostage Rescue Team's apparent shooting at Robert "LaVoy" Finicum and the alleged tampering of evidence; the FBI's use of vast databases to obtain information on the defendants and any evidence that suggests the FBI and government officials sought "to grab and own social media'' to manipulate information about the refuge occupation.
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Attorney Marcus Mumford, appearing before the judge for the first time on behalf of Ammon Bundy, the leader of the occupation, said he hadn't received all the evidence from the prosecutors and said he didn't know if the government planned to share more. He said he and his partner, J. Milgren Philpot, are admittedly still "getting up to speed.'' They recently replaced Bundy's Eugene-based laweyers,
The judge told Mumford that prosecutors certified on May 18 that they had substantially completed their sharing of discovery evidence in the case with defense lawyers. She admonished Mumford repeatedly to listen to her and stop cutting her off and not waste her time with questions that should be resolved outside the courtroom.
"You need to meet with the prosecution team and bring yourself up to speed,'' Brown told him. When Mumford interjected, the judge told him, "Mr. Mumford, may I please finish.''
Mumford indicated that he might seek a delay in the trial for Bundy, saying "it's unfair to force between a speedy trial and a fair one.'' He also told the judge that he expects to argue for Bundy's pretrial release both in the Oregon case and the one he faces in Nevada in the 2014 standoff with federal officers outside the ranch of his father, Cliven Bundy.
As Mumford continued to ask questions and suggest the court was holding his client's "feet to the fire,'' the judge told Mumford, "Please take a seat.'' She said she was committed to holding a Sept. 7 trial and he could ask for more time if he wanted. Anyone seeking a continuance for the trial date must submit it by June 30.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Ethan Knight said he anticipated it will take the government three to four weeks to present its case.
Jury summonses have gone out and several hundred people have responded that they'd be available, the judge said.
Brown is convening a work group to figure out how to lay out a courtroom to allow so many defendants to be tried at once and save some room in the gallery for spectators.
"I'm pushing us all hard because I respect the right asserted by the parties to a speedy trial and a fair trial,'' Brown said during a monthly status hearing Wednesday. "Just because the record includes a lot of information, doesn't mean it can't be done.''
Defense lawyers have said the evidence received so far is staggering: 6,000 hours of video, more than 13,000 photographs, up to 250,000 pages of Facebook account information and more than 40,000 pages of FBI reports.
They're also pushing the federal government to release additional information: the investigative reports regarding the FBI Hostage Rescue Team's apparent shooting at Robert "LaVoy" Finicum and the alleged tampering of evidence; the FBI's use of vast databases to obtain information on the defendants and any evidence that suggests the FBI and government officials sought "to grab and own social media'' to manipulate information about the refuge occupation.
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Attorney Marcus Mumford, appearing before the judge for the first time on behalf of Ammon Bundy, the leader of the occupation, said he hadn't received all the evidence from the prosecutors and said he didn't know if the government planned to share more. He said he and his partner, J. Milgren Philpot, are admittedly still "getting up to speed.'' They recently replaced Bundy's Eugene-based laweyers,
The judge told Mumford that prosecutors certified on May 18 that they had substantially completed their sharing of discovery evidence in the case with defense lawyers. She admonished Mumford repeatedly to listen to her and stop cutting her off and not waste her time with questions that should be resolved outside the courtroom.
"You need to meet with the prosecution team and bring yourself up to speed,'' Brown told him. When Mumford interjected, the judge told him, "Mr. Mumford, may I please finish.''
Mumford indicated that he might seek a delay in the trial for Bundy, saying "it's unfair to force between a speedy trial and a fair one.'' He also told the judge that he expects to argue for Bundy's pretrial release both in the Oregon case and the one he faces in Nevada in the 2014 standoff with federal officers outside the ranch of his father, Cliven Bundy.
As Mumford continued to ask questions and suggest the court was holding his client's "feet to the fire,'' the judge told Mumford, "Please take a seat.'' She said she was committed to holding a Sept. 7 trial and he could ask for more time if he wanted. Anyone seeking a continuance for the trial date must submit it by June 30.
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opcorn:He said four or five years ago Fry had escaped a mental health facility in Ohio after being wrongly diagnosed with schizophrenia. Olson said Fry escaped from the facility because he was told he would have to take psychotropic drugs, which Fry refused.