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Bundy: Judge did U.S. government a favor by throwing out case

Sparks, Nev. • Southern Nevada rancher and state’s rights activist Cliven Bundy said Friday a judge in Las Vegas did the U.S. government a favor last month when she threw out his criminal case stemming from an armed standoff with federal agents at his Bunkerville ranch in April 2014.

Bundy, 71, told a gathering of the Independent American Party of Nevada’s state convention in Sparks that he would have preferred the trial to continue because he knows he would have been acquitted of any crimes in a decades-old feud with the U.