Bundy Defendant Makes Nice With His Lawyer
Friday, June 03, 2016
Last Update: 6:23 AM PT
By MIKE HEUER
LAS VEGAS (CN) — ... Richard Lovelien filed a handwritten motion on May 23, saying: "I do not believe my appointed attorney, Mr. Shawn Perez, has my best interests at heart" ...
U.S. Magistrate Judge Peggy Leen presided over the motion hearing Thursday morning, which she immediately closed, asking everyone but Perez and Lovelien to leave the courtroom.
Fifteen minutes later, when the hearing was reopened, Lovelien withdrew his motion to remove Perez.
Lovelien and Perez appeared to be in good spirits before the hearing, smiling and joking with one another as Perez said that one of the discovery materials produced by federal prosecutors is a 9-hour video of an outhouse ...
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