LAS VEGAS — Twelve of 19 defendants want separate trials in the federal criminal case involving Nevada cattleman Cliven Bundy, 70, stemming from an armed standoff near his Bunkerville ranch.
Bundy and sons are among those whose attorneys have filed documents seeking to sever their cases from the rest.
All 19 have pleaded not guilty to various conspiracy, weapon, threat and assault charges from a gunpoint standoff that stopped government agents from rounding up cattle on public land. They’re charged together in a single 63-page indictment.
Bundy attorney Joel Hansen argues in a May 27 filing that a group trial could confuse a jury into finding defendants “guilty by association.”
