Posted on 10/20/2009 2:40:03 PM PDT by llevrok
A Brownsville man convicted of violating his lifetime hunting suspension has been sentenced to 10 months in the Linn County Jail.
Sgt. Mari Chambers of the Oregon State Police says 58-year-old Raymond Hillsman was caught trespassing on private land while retrieving beagles he used to hunt rabbits.
Hillsman has not been allowed to hunt since a 1999 racketeering conviction. In that case, he was convicted of killing bears illegally and selling their gall bladders.
According to police, Chambers got a six-month sentence for violating the suspension, three months on a charge of criminal trespass with a firearm and another 30 days for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Hillsman's ten month sentence in Linn County Jail is on the following charges:
30 days for "Felon in Possession of Firearm" 180 days for "Violation of a Lifetime Hunting Suspension" 90 days for "Criminal Trespass with a Firearm" He will also be placed on 36 months supervised probation with restrictions not to possess any game meat or any part of game mammal or fur-bearing mammal; not to engage in any kind of hunting or be with anyone who is hunting; and not to train any dogs for hunting or live with anyone who owns dogs for hunting.
I’ll see your naked coffee maker and raise you a rabbit hunter....
“... he was convicted of killing bears illegally and selling their gall bladders.”
Then he deserves everything they throw at him. (Just to be clear, I have nothing against bear hunting, per se, but slaughtering them to supply the Chinese traditional medicine market is plain wrong.)
In Ukraine they leave one of the rabbit’s feet on so you can be sure it’s a rabbit and not a water rat.
In this case, I agree. Trying to get a little tail is illegal.
Ditto.
I agree.
Oh yuck!! Rabbit tastes pretty good but they stink like crazy when you clean them.
and another 30 days for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Is that all???
Some years ago, landowners lobbied to enhance the trespass laws and were sucessful in doing so. When caught hunting on someone else's property, why, you're hunting "rabbits" of course, thinking that it's the innocuous little critter that will soften things.
If you haven't been found in possession of anything, no one can really argue just what you were hunting but the trespassing charge will nail you here.
Granted, the guy sounds like a slime ball, but philosophically, something about being banned from hunting for life, seems a bit unconstitutional to me.
is this photo three skinned rabbits in a butcher’s case, or the desktop image from Kevin Jennings’ laptop?
Was there a warren for his arrest?
Well said! Poaching wildlife for body parts is about as low as you can go as a hunter.
It was probably a condition of a plea bargain that he agreed to to lessen his punishment. He should honor his word.
The headline is a little misleading. It’s like a headline that reads “Man sentenced to six months for driving.”
...then you find you he was .25, crashed into a parked car and had a revoked license
So if the ban is in and of itself unconstitutional on its face, it doesn't matter if someone agreed to it, its null and void.
Chuckle.
There is more than adequate precedent for this sort of sentencing, IMHO.
Funny, my father told me that he used to leave a foot on dressed racoons that he would sell because the buyers wanted to know it was a racoon and not a dog.
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