Las Vegas Trial Starting for Six in Bundy Ranch Standoff
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Las Vegas (AP) -- A jury in Las Vegas heard competing narratives Thursday about six men accused of illegally wielding weapons to block a federal roundup of cattle near states' rights advocate Cliven Bundy's Nevada ranch in April 2014.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Myhre cast the defendants as insurrectionist lawbreakers — willing gunmen who answered Bundy's call to "do whatever it takes" to prevent federal Bureau of Land Management agents from seizing his cattle in a decades-long dispute over grazing rules and unpaid fees.