LAS VEGAS — Twelve of 19 defendants want separate trials in the federal criminal case involving cattleman Cliven Bundy and an armed standoff near his southern Nevada ranch.
The 70-year-old state sovereignty figure and three of his sons are among those whose attorneys have filed documents in recent weeks seeking to sever their cases from the rest.
Bundy says a group trial could confuse a jury into finding defendants “guilty by association.”
All 19 defendants have pleaded not guilty to various conspiracy, obstruction, weapon, threat and assault charges stemming from a gunpoint standoff that stopped government agents from rounding up cattle on public land.
