Rule No. 2: Hope that the attorneys and FBI agents who are in charge of prosecuting you don’t pay any more attention to the rule of law than you do.
Cliven Bundy, the 71-year-old patriarch of a family whose members have made a living stealing the grass on public land for their cattle to graze on, walked out of a federal courthouse in Las Vegas Monday a free man.
It wasn’t just that a mistrial been declared in the matter of the Bundy-led armed standoff with federal agents. The judge in the case was moved to tell the government it couldn’t try the case again because prosecutors and investigators were guilty of “intentional abdication of … responsibility,” ″flagrant misconduct” and “substantial prejudice.