Rex Rammell gets fairly easy sentence for elk poaching conviction
Serving as his own attorney, Rammell is convicted by a jury of his peers-
After many months and after getting charged with jury tampering (yet to go to trial), former Republican gubernatorial candidate Rex Rammell was convicted of poaching an elk. He was fined $1000 (after the judge suspended $500) and will serve 5 days in jail (after the judge suspended 175 days of the jail sentence). He lost his elk license for 2 years. All in all, it seems a typical Idaho sentence for poaching elk.
The money to be recovered from Rammell will not go far in paying for the cost of the case to the state. Rammell also vows to appeal.
Probably more significant could be the charge made the other day of him trying to jury tamper (passing out literature to potential jurors on the courthouse step).

Ralph Maughan
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He was a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and was also its President for several years. For a long time 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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Can anyone explain to me how you don’t lose your hunting license for at least ten years when you’re caught poaching an animal such as an elk?
What a joke.
I told you that he wouldn’t get any real sentence in any court in Idaho. Let’s be honest about it, “Idaho” is actually the Shoshone word for inbreeding.
Disappointing, but not unexpected. The suspensions are a bit troubling, if the circumstances of his arrest are to be believed.
Now, the jury tampering matter may hold something a little more interesting. He will have to defend himself, and for most of us that means legal counsel at some cost. On the other hand if he defends himself, there is proof enough that he has a fool for a client.
Is he Tasmanian?
Read the link. There is a photo. I assume they are. There are three of them, by the way; not one.