March 19, 2015
From HeraldOnline.com
Robert Land, 18, was sentenced to 20 hours of community service cleaning up a state park for shooting a deer at night.
“I’m sorry,” Land said in court to Judge Brian Gibbons, offering no other explanation for why he saw the deer in his headlights of his car, stopped, pulled out a hunting rifle and killed it.
Judge Gibbons also gave Land 90 days of probation and suspended a six-month jail sentence for the crime of “night hunting for deer or bear,” and also did not impose a fine that could have been up to $1,000.
Yet state law enacted to deter illegal hunting allows state wildlife agents to seize a poacher’s vehicle – and that happened to Land.