Aizona vigilante rancher seeks to benefit from AZ law that bans punative damages for undoc. immig.

[Derechos]

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The activist, Casey J. Nethercott, a former leader of the border-watching group Ranch Rescue, has already been forced to turn over his border ranch to the migrants, Edwin Alfredo Mancía Gonzáles and Fátima del Socorro Leiva Medina. They sold the 60-acre property near Douglas, Ariz., for $45,000, and their lawyers at the Southern Poverty Law Center continue to seek the rest of the $850,000 judgment against Mr. Nethercott.

Mr. Nethercott, a onetime bounty hunter who is acting as his own lawyer, is seeking the return of the ranch, where he had a shooting range, observation tower and armored vehicles, and he indicated in court papers that he wants the entire judgment against him thrown out.

“It is now, in 2011, a crime and a violation of the canons and ethics of the court to take such action against an American citizen of Arizona, and to allow this type of conduct in court,” said Mr. Nethercott, who was released in 2009 from a Texas prison where he served a sentence for being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Mr. Nethercott has a string of assault and weapons convictions, and was once mentioned in Congressional testimony on abuses by bounty hunters for detaining at gunpoint two Southern California high school students on their way home from a football game.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/28/us/28arizona.html?ref=us

[The Northerner]

1. Let's hope he loses and has to pay more nt

[classysassy]

2. Arizona and the wild west mentality

The fools that run or that are ruining Arizona continue to take pride in their racist thugs.This state is a haven for lawless thugs and fools.The carpet baggers that ascended in large groups in the seventies and eighties have been elected to public office and they are worse than the criminals they arrest.There is the governor Jan "The Hag",Sheriff Joe "the mental midget",Russell Pierce "The mormon moron",those two jackass senators John and Jon, and the rest of the republican rednecks.We are the laughing stock of the nation and rightly so.