Oregon Standoff Defendants Found Not Guilty

A jury Thursday delivered an across-the-board acquittal to the leaders and participants in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation in Oregon and a blow to the federal government as it tries to tamp down a national movement led by a Nevada family to open public lands to ranchers, miners, and loggers, reports the Oregonian.The verdicts finding Ammon Bundy, older brother Ryan Bundy, and five others not guilty of a federal conspiracy drew elation from defense attorneys who spent five weeks a