#OregonStandoff Defendant Does Not Want to Go to Nevada

One of the men arrested in connection with the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge is asking a federal judge for an emergency order keeping him in Oregon.

The issue is that Ryan Payne, besides being charged here, is charged in Federal Court in Nevada in connection with the 2014 armed standoff with federal agents at Bunkerville.

Payne is one of several people charged in both places.

The thing is, his lawyer states, is that a federal judge in Nevada has issued an order forcing Payne to be sent to Nevada on or about March 17 and held there "until released and discharged" by that court.

Payne's lawyer, public defender Lisa Hay, argues there are several problems with that order, not the least of which is that kind of order "cannot be used by one federal district court to remove a pretrial detainee from another federal district court."

Then there are other issues like it would violate his Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights.

Hay writes that the U.S. Attorney in Oregon does not oppose her motion and states they would not be opposed to helping their counterparts in Nevada arraign Payne by videoconference.

While Payne so far is the only subject to this kind of order from a judge in Nevada, lawyer for four of his co-defendants joined in the motion.

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