I agree with everything you said, but I’m wondering what crime was committed by doing that. Trespass? Maybe. Civil liability? Possible. But what crime?
I don’t know factually, but it’s more than similar to an illegal wiretap. Some states require consent by the recorded party. Some don’t. I don’t know offhand which flavor MS is.
Trespass is possible, I suppose, but usually any significant penalty from a trespass violation requires the intent to do harm to the property or to persons on the property. Not just taking a shortcut across your land with no other intent than to save a few steps. Was the intent of the picture-taker to do harm? I suppose. Measurable? How? Moot, since we assume that the intent was to damage/harm Cochran?
OTOH, sometimes the penalties for illegal wiretaps can get into big numbers.