Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Hunting violation |
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2010 |
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2011 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
Minnesota |
County or Region of Crime: |
Saint Louis |
City of Crime: |
Hibbing |
Result: |
Judicially Exonerated |
Summary of Case: |
"Donald Carrol Hansen was wrongly convicted of violating Minn. Stat. § 97B.328 (2010), which is a misdemeanor prohibiting a hunter from using bait to hunt deer,. However, the law does not prohibit a vegetable farmer, who has a normal and accepted agricultural practice of transporting discarded vegetables to a fallow field for use as fertilizer, from hunting within range of the discarded vegetables." |
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Information Source 1: |
"State of Minnesota vs. Donald Carrol Hansen, No. A11-546 (MN Ct. of Appeals, 11-21-2011)" |
Information Location 1: |
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/mn-court-of-appeals/1586148.html |
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"Deer Baiting Conviction Of Hibbing Farmer Reversed, AP story, Fox 21 TV (Minneapolis-St. Paul), November 22, 2011" |
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http://www.fox21online.com/news/deer-baiting-conviction-hibbing-farmer-reversed |
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