Among the thousands of documents the prosecution willfully withheld from the Bundys were threat assessments from the FBI. The lawyers for the defendants specifically asked the prosecutors for all threat assessment documents.
We can see why the Judge ruled that the prosecution acted willfully in withholding material evidence form the defendants.
In a July 5 email, Ryan Payne's lawyers asked prosecutors for copies of all threat assessments prepared before the April 2014 standoff between Cliven Bundy's supporters and federal officers trying to impound Bundy's cattle for years of failing to pay grazing fees and fines.
Prosecutors characterized the defendants' continued push for the assessments as another in their "long list of frivolous and vexatious pleadings.''
The threat assessments by the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit, the Southern Nevada Counterterrorism Task Force, FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force and Gold Butte Cattle Impound Risk Assessment found the Bundys weren't likely to use violence.
They were just one example of the prosecution team's callous disregard of its constitutional obligations to share with the defense any potentially favorable evidence, according to Payne's lawyers, assistant federal public defenders Brenda Weksler and Ryan Norwood.
Unsealed motions in NV Bundy case detail prosecution's violations | OregonLive.com
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