Gerry Spence: Buckaroo Barrister

April, 1996

Gerry Spence: Buckaroo BarristerIn late August 1992, Randy Weaver was holed up in his shack on Ruby Ridge, a rocky bluff in the mountains of northern Idaho. His wife's body had been rotting at his feet for a week, ever since an FBI sniper shot her through the face as she held their infant daughter. His 14-year-old son, also killed by a federal agent, lay lifeless in the barn. Weaver, a white separatist under siege for violating gun laws, had taken a bullet in the shoulder. Hundreds of FBI agents...