Prosecutor: Gillett will not be re-tried. Idaho Mountain Express.
Ralph Maughan
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He has been a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and also its President. For many years he produced Ralph Maughan's Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of "Hiking Idaho." He also wrote "Beyond the Tetons" and "Backpacking Wyoming's Teton and Washakie Wilderness." He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.
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NO big suprise. Trials cost a lot of money. Money that our government(s) lack. WHat he did, compared to many court cases, is small potatoes.
I totally think he is reprehensable and guilty as sin…but I am not suprised at all. Though I feel for Lynne, and I hope she sues the civil crap right out of this butthead…I’d rather see the money spent to jail molesters and murderers.
Besides, I think suing him and taking his money would serve as far better punishment for this sub-human jerk.
Maybe the prosecutor can’t find another 12 people in Custer County smart enough to sit on a jury.
I don’t think the prosecutor can seat a jury in that county that will look at the case objectively and make a determination based on the facts of the case…as I said, when this story first broke about the hung jury, the prosecutor should have asked for a change of venue! before the first trial…):
I’m not a lawyer, (thankfully) but I don’t know that a prosecutor can ask for a venue change, I think that’s a defense thing.
I agree that he should be sued in civil court. What did the pictures show that Lynne was taking? That should be some definite piece of evidence? But I’m not surprised about the trial – is the restraining order still in effect?