The attorney for the family of Idaho rancher Jack Yantis has announced that iconic lawyer Gerry Spence is helping him on the family's case.

Jack Yantis was having a peaceful dinner with his family on the evening of Sunday, November 1, 2015 when a local law enforcement dispatcher called him to tell him that one of his bulls had been hit by a car and needed to be put down. Soon after Mr. Yantis went out to the scene as requested by police, he was shot to death on the dark roadside in front of his wife and another family member. His wife immediately had a heart attack.

The two perpetrators remain unnamed 'for their safety,', are on paid leave and have been skirted out of town to an undisclosed location, under police protection. The deputies vehicles were equipped with dash cams, but the cams were conveniently 'turned off' when they slaughtered 62-year-old Yantis.

The department has only ten officers, including Sheriff Zollman.

Matthew K. Taylor, a Boise, Idaho lawyer is described on his twitter page as a "Local business attorney serving local Boise businesses.We are here to answer all your business questions and serve your legal needs- Our Business is the Law."

Taylor is the lawyer for the Jack Yantis family. Below are Taylor's recent tweets, including the one where he announced that Gerry Spence will be helping on the case. Taylor also noted "Well, due to the increased attention of the #yantisshooting we will be using twitter to support the family."

Gerry Spence is the author of many books, including 'From Freedom To Slavery: The Rebirth of Tyranny in America;' 'With Justice for None: Destroying an American Myth;' 'Bloodthirsty Bitches and Pious Pimps of Power: The Rise and Risks of the New Conservative Hate Culture;' 'Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom: An Owner's Manual for Life;' and 'O.J. the Last Word.'

#yantisshooting breaking news... Gerry Spence's firm is now working with Taylor Law Offices for justice.

— Matthew K. Taylor (@BoiseLawyer) November 10, 2015

Prepare to hear from the daughter of Jack #yantisshooting today at 4pm

— Matthew K. Taylor (@BoiseLawyer) November 10, 2015

Well, due to the increased attention of the #yantisshooting we will be using twitter to support the family

— Matthew K. Taylor (@BoiseLawyer) November 10, 2015

In his book 'From Freedom to Slavery, the Rebirth of Freedom in America' (1996) Gerry Spence explained why he agreed to defend Randy Weaver. Excerpt:

Randy Weaver's wife was dead, shot through the head while she clutched her child to her breast. His son was shot, twice. First they shot the child's arm, probably destroyed the arm. The child cried out. Then, as the child was running they shot him in the back. Randy Weaver himself had been shot and wounded and Kevin Harris, a kid the Weavers had all but adopted was dying of a chest wound. The blood hadn't cooled on Ruby Hill before the national media announced that I had taken the defense of Randy Weaver. Then all hell broke loose. My sister wrote me decrying my defense of this "racist". There were letters to the editors in several papers that expressed their disappointment that I would lend my services to a person with Weaver's beliefs. And I received a letter from my close friend Alan Hirschfield, the former chairman of chief executive officer of Columbia Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox, imploring me to withdraw.

He wrote:

"After much thought I decided to write this letter to you. It represents a very profound concern on my part regarding your decision to represent Randy Weaver. While I applaud and fully understand your motives in taking such a case, I nonetheless find this individual defense troubling. It is so because of the respectability and credibility your involvement imparts to a cause which I find despicable...."

The next morning I delivered the following letter by carrier to Mr. Hirschfield:

"I cherish your letter. It reminds me once again of our friendship, for only friends can speak and hear each other in matters so deeply a part of the soul. And your letter reminds me as well, as we must all be reminded, of the unspeakable pain every Jew has suffered from the horrors of the Holocaust. No better evidence of our friendship could be shown than your intense caring concerning what I do and what I stand for.

 

  I met Randy Weaver in jail on the evening of his surrender. His eyes had no light in them. He was unshaven and dirty. He was naked except for yellow plastic prison coveralls, and he was cold. His small feet were clad in rubber prison sandals. In the stark setting of the prison conference room he seemed diminutive and fragile. He had spent 11 days and nights in a standoff against the government and he had lost. His wife was dead. His son was dead. His friend was near death. Weaver himself had been wounded. He had lost his freedom. He had lost it all. And now he stood face to face with a stranger who towered over him and whose words were not words of comfort. When I spoke, you, Alan, were on my mind.

"My name is Gerry Spence" I began. "I'm the lawyer you've been told about. Before we begin to talk I want you to understand that I do not share any of your political or religious beliefs. Many of my dearest friends are Jews. My daughter is married to a Jew. My sister is married to a black man. She has adopted a black child. I deplore what the Nazis stand for. If I defend you I will not defend your political beliefs or your religious beliefs, but your right as an American citizen to a fair trial." His quiet answer was, "That is all I ask." Then I motioned him to a red plastic chair and I took a similar one. And as the guards marched by and from time to time peered in, he told his story.

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More on the Ruby Ridge massacre here. Wiki notes:

Ruby Ridge was the site of a deadly confrontation and siege in northern Idaho in 1992 between Randy Weaver, his family, and his friend Kevin Harris and agents of the United States Marshals Service (USMS) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). It resulted in the death of Weaver's son Sammy, his wife Vicki, and Deputy U.S. Marshal William Francis Degan.

At the subsequent federal criminal trial of Weaver and Harris, Weaver's attorney Gerry Spence made accusations of "criminal wrongdoing" against every agency involved in the incident: the FBI, the USMS, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and the United States Attorney's Office (USAO) for Idaho. At the completion of the trial, the Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility formed a Ruby Ridge Task Force to investigate Spence's charges. The 1994 task force report was released in redacted form by Lexis Counsel Connect, an information service for attorneys. It raised questions about the conduct and policy of all the agencies.

The Ruby Ridge incident and the 1993 Waco siege, involving many of the same agencies and even the same personnel, caused public outcry and fueled the widening of the militia movement. To answer public questions about Ruby Ridge, the Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Government Information held a total of 14 days of hearings between September 6 and October 19, 1995, and subsequently issued a report calling for reforms in federal law enforcement to prevent a repeat of Ruby Ridge and to restore public confidence in federal law enforcement.

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