If you can't do the time don't do the crime.
They were charged with arson after they set a backfire that saved their own range land. Less than 200 acres of BLM land were burned in the process. They were found guilty, sentenced, and served their time.
Once released, the BLM, which had been trying to acquire their land for years, went to a sympathetic federal judge who re-sentenced them. Much easier to steal somebodies land when they are in jail.
Bonus question: Do you think they should do the time twice?
Educate yourself.
There was no crime. BLM is trying to steal their land using our august courts.
What crime? Lighting a back-fire on THEIR OWN property to protect it from a wildfire burning on BLM land? A back-fire that actually helped put out the fire that the Feds had failed to put out?
From what it appears, there were no game violation charges because there was actually zero evidence of such a crime - that it was just part of the "story" the Feds came up with to get a conviction.
And someone posted that there was a plea deal...? The documents I have read indicate that they did not plead anything - they were convicted by a jury that was allowed to hear 6 days of bluster from the prosecution, but the defense was only allowed 1 day. The ONLY witness was a mentally disturbed child who was, at the time of his testimony, estranged from his family (grandfather and uncle on trial). Even the judge said the testimony was unreliable - yet he allowed it.
The back-story, even from a non-biased source, gives enough evidence for a truckload of red flags - and a very good reason to distrust ANYTHING the Feds have said or done in this case. This is more dirty than the operations of the Mafia...