CHICAGO (CN) – A misdemeanor animal-abandonment conviction over an escaped llama should not trigger a 10-year mandatory minimum prison sentence for a later pot conviction, the 7th Circuit ruled. When Mark Burge’s llama escaped from its pen and wandered off in 2007, Illinois prosecutors charged him with misdemeanor abandonment under the state’s animal cruelty statute. “Rather
CHICAGO (CN) – A misdemeanor animal-abandonment conviction over an escaped llama should not trigger a 10-year mandatory minimum prison sentence for a later pot conviction, the 7th Circuit ruled. When Mark Burge’s llama escaped from its pen and wandered off in 2007, Illinois prosecutors charged him with misdemeanor abandonment under the state’s animal cruelty statute. “Rather
CHICAGO (CN) – A misdemeanor animal-abandonment conviction over an escaped llama should not trigger a 10-year mandatory minimum prison sentence for a later pot conviction, the 7th Circuit ruled. When Mark Burge’s llama escaped from its pen and wandered off in 2007, Illinois prosecutors charged him with misdemeanor abandonment under the state’s animal cruelty statute. “Rather
CHICAGO (CN) – A misdemeanor animal-abandonment conviction over an escaped llama should not trigger a 10-year mandatory minimum prison sentence for a later pot conviction, the 7th Circuit ruled. When Mark Burge’s llama escaped from its pen and wandered off in 2007, Illinois prosecutors charged him with misdemeanor abandonment under the state’s animal cruelty statute. “Rather
CHICAGO (CN) – A misdemeanor animal-abandonment conviction over an escaped llama should not trigger a 10-year mandatory minimum prison sentence for a later pot conviction, the 7th Circuit ruled. When Mark Burge’s llama escaped from its pen and wandered off in 2007, Illinois prosecutors charged him with misdemeanor abandonment under the state’s animal cruelty statute. “Rather
