Lamest violation excuse ever?

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The Associated Press
Published: November 7th, 2009 01:02 PM
Last Modified: November 7th, 2009 01:02 PM
KOTZEBUE, Alaska - Two Point Hope men are facing trial on caribou wasting charges after a judge in Kotzebue rejected a defense motion to dismiss their case

Roy A. Miller Jr. and Koomalook M. Stone had sought to have their cases thrown out on grounds that people in the Alaska bush did not have sufficient notice about the regulation on salvaging meat when it was implemented in 1991.
Defense lawyer Ella Anagick argued that state Superior Court Judge Richard Erlich should invalidate the regulation partly because public hearing notices were published only in major newspapers not read in many areas of the state.
But the judge agreed Friday with Assistant Attorney General Andrew Peterson, who argued the state followed procedure for adopting the regulation

Eight men have been charged with wasting caribou after at least 37 caribou were found rotting on the tundra outside Point Hope in the summer of 2008.


-From the Anchorage daily news.
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Consider this...someone went through law school, passed the bar, and after reviewing the case, applied all their knowledge, skill, and powers of persuasion to mount a defense. How scary is it that this was the best thing they could come up with to defend these guys?

My dad was a public defender for a number of years, and he always said that you usually had very little to work with.
 
Yes, and whats really scary is the lawyer wasn't content with getting the defendants off-they were shooting to have the whole regulation invalidated. Oh and this "obscure" law is in the Alaska hunting regulations,has been since passage,full page big black letters on top"Salvage and possession of game". Available in any grocery store.
 
and, I was thinking, no doubt at the place they pick up the license....
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I am pretty certain any one who sells licenses is required to have the regs available.
These follows are in more trouble then with the state. They are natives living in a remote native village where subsistence hunting is a way of life, the heart, soul and foundation of the community.
I am not a native nor do I live in a village, but the input I get is they have all the status of a child molster.
 
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