Breaking: Trump Pardons Oregon Ranchers Whose Case Sparked Occupation Of Wildlife Refuge

[bigwave]

President Donald Trump pardoned two Oregon ranchers forced back into prison in 2016 to serve out the rest of the mandatory minimum sentence required under an anti-terrorism law.

 

“The Hammonds are multi-generation cattle ranchers in Oregon imprisoned in connection with a fire that leaked onto a small portion of neighboring public grazing land,” the White House said in a statement. “The evidence at trial regarding the Hammonds’ responsibility for the fire was conflicting, and the jury acquitted them on most of the charges.

 

Dwight and Steven Hammond were convicted of committing arson on federal land in 2012 under an anti-terrorism law from 1996. The U.S. District Court judge who sentenced the ranchers believed the mandatory minimum sentence was too harsh, thus both men served short stints in prison.

The Hammonds served their time, but federal prosecutors appealed the case and got a federal court to overturn the 2012 judgment. The Hammonds were forced back into prison in 2016 to serve the rest of their sentences.

Read more at:https://www.weaselzippers.us/390484-breaking-trump-pardons-oregon-ranchers-whose-case-sparked-occupation-of-wildlife-refuge/

[Shabibilicious]

With thousands of acres currently ablaze in the Western U.S., some of those fires caused by careless folks, no less.......a full pardon for these two seems completely reasonable.  

 

GO RV, then BV

Edited July 10, 2018 by Shabibilicious

[Texstorm]

Thanks Bigwave ! I'm glad that they are finally free. Too many times our Federal Government has overstepped it's bounds, good ending here for sure.

[Fly]

Not just another fire...things really starting to heat up.

 

After yesterday's Presidential pardon, Dwight and Steven Hammond left prison as free men. Pete Santilli joins me [Jason Goodman] to present explosive evidence linking the prosecution of him, the Hammonds and the Bundys to the Uranium One scandal and troubling corruption in the Bureau of Land Management.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB0A-9dP5Eo