12/2/17

Today's intersection: Dakota Excess and the Bundy trial



Kevin Decker was tried with eight others in the second Dakota Excess trial and convicted of misdemeanor disorderly conduct.
Decker received a deferred imposition of sentence, including $1,585 in fines and fees and a year of unsupervised probation. His appeal, filed in March, is over insufficient evidence and a structural error during trial proceedings. His appeal regarding his misdemeanor disorderly conduct conviction is the first DAPL case to be heard before the North Dakota Supreme Court. Two more appeals are pending. Mary Redway and Alexander Simon were the first protest-related defendants sentenced to serve incarceration for their convictions. In addition to the three appeals, 496 DAPL-related cases have closed, 234 are open and 98 are inactive with warrants as of Thursday, according to trial court administrator Donna Wunderlich.
Get the story here.

There is a straight line from Kristi Noem's American Legislative Exchange Council brainwashing to the American Lands Council: both are Koch-driven special interest groups seeking to open federal lands to private development bypassing environmental protections.

Noem's former colleague in the South Dakota Legislature, state Senator Betty Olson, has repeatedly sworn allegiance to the domestic terrorists led by Cliven Bundy and Noem herself has yet to condemn their seditious conspiracy but she certainly supports federal welfare for ranchers.


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