SPOKANE -- The FBI sniper who shot the wife of white separatist Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge will not be tried in an Idaho courtroom for involuntary manslaughter, Boundary County, Idaho, Prosecutor Brett Benton said Thursday.
Last week, a sharply divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi could face trial for the death of Vicki Weaver in the 1992 standoff.
Benton issued his decision in a brief press release from his Bonners Ferry, Idaho, office. He gave no reason for his decision.
The involuntary manslaughter charge had been filed by Benton's predecessor, Denise Woodbury. She lost to Benton in last year's election.
Special Prosecutor Stephen Yagman, a Los Angeles attorney appointed by Woodbury to handle the case, said he did not take part in the decision to drop the charge.
"Were there to be a different prosecutor in Boundary County, the charge, or more severe charges such as second-degree murder, could be refiled," Yagman said in the news release.
An FBI government assault team decended on Ruby Ridge and thanks to a sniper from that team Randy Weavers wife and children were killed, why, justice! The gov't will protect their boys.
The feds rule, cross them and another Ruby Ridge. This case and many more are all suspect. The truth is out there,- way out there and you won't find it in this lifetime. Just another coverup.
