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September 26, 2003
Local Dumbass
Daniel Anthony Raymond's conviction was upheld today by the Arkansas Supreme Court. [Yes I know the news article says it was remanded. It's wrong. Go read the opinion here]
His crime? Violation of A.C.A. 5-71-228, which states in part:
a) It is unlawful for any person to willfully obstruct or impede the participation of any individual in the lawful activity of shooting, hunting, fishing, or trapping in this state. Provided, that nothing in this section shall prohibit a landowner or lessee from exercising his or her lawful right to prohibit hunting,fishing, or trapping on his or her land, or from exercising any other legal right.
You see, this freaking retard didn't want people hunting on his neighbor's property. So when hunting season started, he jumped on his four wheeler and started patrolling the property line, blowing a whistle and shooting off rounds from his .22 pistol. I'm surprised they didn't have to remove the whistle and pistol from his ass.
But the hunters did the smart thing & called the law on him. He was convicted since he freely admitted what he did. Then he appealed his conviction on the grounds that, among other things, he had a First Amendment right to blow the whistle.
Riiiiight. Too bad for him that he didn't raise that issue at trial, since our Supremes are pretty strict about not hearing issues that weren't. They were not amused and affirmed his conviction.
Guess that means he's a double dumbass.
Posted by Rita at September 26, 2003 06:38 PM