Andy L
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posted October 06, 2006 07:14 AM
We used to get out of school for deer season. No one would show anyway. But I found this pretty funny...
Wheels of Justice May Stop for Deer Season
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It's a case of the rifle vs. the gavel. A defense attorney in Arkansas has asked that his client's corruption trial be postponed because it would conflict with deer-hunting season. Lawyer John Wesley Hall Jr. argued this week that hunters selected for the jury in rural Lonoke County may not devote their full attention to the trial, if they show up for selection.
Hall is representing Bobby Cox, a former bondsman facing drug and terroristic-threat charges as part of a criminal enterprise that includes five others, among them the town's mayor and police chief. Among the many charges are accusations that the group abused a prisoner work program to get free labor from inmates. Their trial is scheduled for Nov. 8. The month-long deer season begins three days later. Special Judge John Cole has set a hearing on the postponement for Sept. 21.
Hall wants hunters because they "tend to be more conservative and would be less inclined to give credence" to criminals as witnesses, he said. Prosecutor Lona McCastlain said Hall is stalling. "In all of my nine years prosecuting, I have not ever seen the court grant a continuance of the trial because of deer season," she said.
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Andy
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