ImBillT
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On the topic of the thread- I’m glad he got caught and hope this stops him or at least slows him down, BUT one thing that really rubs me the wrong way is that in most of these poaching stories I see what I call “charge stacking”. Someone poaches an animal and then gets charged with taking an animal out of season, taking it with an illegal means, trespassing, taking it without a license, failure to properly tag, shooting from a right of way, shooting at night, using a spotlight, shooting from a vehicle waste of game etc. I get it, we don’t think any of those carries enough of a sentence on his own so we charge him with everything, BUT why do we have to charge him with 56 charges for one single act? I’m 100% in additional charge for each animal. Poach ten animals, get charged with ten counts of poaching. If the penalty isn’t enough don’t we need to just raise the penalty?