Interesting article on the sentance in the Wegmans Cruelty case

[LeftyMom]

http://www.rochester-citynews.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A4438

[BrklynLiberal]

1. I would hope that there is some case that can be made against that judge

for collusion with Wegman's. The man is obviously an SOB!

[flvegan]

2. What is that smell? Oh, yes...an appeal.

I hope the activist takes part in what can be the conclusion of the Great American Trial...a group of a judge's peers telling him/her that he/she was pretty much full of shit.

I'm surprised that the chain wanted to go to trial to prosecute. Normally, they don't like the public viewing the reality that supports the industry.

[LeftyMom]

3. I'm amazed how lame thier argument was

"Oh, that footage must be some other battery egg farm" :eyes: Yet the same footage was the evidence he'd broken into thier farm. I'm glad to see he was not convicted on the charges of taking the sick hens though, seems like a very good precedent to me, especially considering the lack of legal protections for farmed animals in general and chickens specifically. Seems like 6 mos is a good trade for a legal precedent that abuse and neglect is a valid reason for a private citizen to remove and animal from it's legal owner (though that is of course an easier trade-off to make when it's not 6 mos of my life on the line.)

[flvegan]

4. Not surprising, though (not getting charged for the "theft")

as the evidence, on it's face, leads to jury damnation. It give him reason to be there, suggesting a Good Samaritan.

Shit, I know somebody very well, that raided a battery farm, had Farm Sanctuary and HSUS all over it, THEN, the next year, sat next to Rodney "Big Ass Terrorist Boogeyman" Coronado and talked about it, in explicit detail...to 1,000+ cheering activists.

Never went after him, phone never rang. No FBI, no DHS. Nobody in the animal industry wants a nasty trial. Discovery is a serious bitch, that with the proper defense attorney, takes her flesh in very large chunks.

[LeftyMom]

5. He was charged with theft though.

It just didn't stick. Apparently taking sick animals away from thier "rightful owner" (please insert my rant on how evil the idea of owning a living breathing being is here since you've heard it before) so they don't die is not theft, at least in the eyes of some jury in Rochester. Needless to say, hearing that makes me smile.

Your chicken snatching friend gets a big hug from me, okay? :D

[flvegan]

6. Exactly.

Charges don't stick if nobody is around to testify.

I'll forward your big hug his way.