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Charges of conspiracy to impede federal officers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, and firearms possession in a federal facility will stand against the indicted Oregon standoff defendants headed to trial this fall or later, U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown has ruled.
The judge's decisions follow legal arguments last month in which defense lawyers had urged the court to dismiss the allegations, contending they were unconstitutionally vague or broad, or that the federal government did not have jurisdiction over the wildlife sanctuary in eastern Oregon.
In written orders filed Friday, the judge dismissed those defense motions. Brown, though, has yet to rule on the third count of the federal indictments – using and carrying a firearm in the course of a crime of violence - considered the most tenuous of the charges filed.
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