Wyoming Corner Crossing Defense Fund

[Carl 9.3x62]

It seems that way unless I’m missing something? Or misunderstanding you? U said earlier the bigger issue was a NR drawing it two years in a row. I could draw draw it every yr because there’s no demand for the tag. The residents don’t want it either.

I think you missed some sarcasm earlier

 

[Thomas11]

This is not only a game and fish issue. There is a dispute about the application of basic property law/trespass - which predates modern G&F regulations for literally centuries.

If you cannot imagine a legitimate reason why a meaningful number of trained professionals don’t see things exactly as you do, I think you have to look in the mirror for the one who is missing the point.

I just feel these “trained” professionals in this case are motivated by other things than upholding the law. I think the DA was persuaded by the landowner to file charges. He basically harassed everyone else trying to enforce his will and no one would agree w him. And I think they are really stretching this law for their benefit to say it’s trespassing to break the plane of their property in the air above their corner. I just don’t see their case as reasonable nor can I see how anyone reasonable person could but I understand there are two sides to every story

 

[JM77]

I think the DA was persuaded by the landowner to file charges.

Who is this Sheriff Archie Roybal and where does he fit in all this?

 

[Thomas11]

I think you missed some sarcasm earlier

Maybe so! I

Who is this Sheriff Archie Roybal and where does he fit in all this?

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i don’t know if the actual sheriff was involved but their deputies were called multiple times and didn’t issue citations according to the case. In fact one of them said they wouldn’t issue the ticket because the DA wouldn’t prosecute it, which is ironic

 

[PrairieHunter]

Saratoga is quite the soap opera these days. Just recently they had to fire a cop for threatening to fight folks from the sheriffs office.

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Last time i was in town a drunk had smacked a light pole trying to turn into dollar general on Sunday mid day.

Neat little town though.

 

[Dakotakid]

"In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups. The police who investigate crime and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders.”

Sometimes officers forget that they investigate not prosecute.

 

[PrairieHunter]

Am I the only one who thinks a group of Wyoming landowners may try to get together, form some sort of "Ranchers for property rights" group and try to get laws changed to make corner crossing illegal in Wyoming after this?

 

[Straight Arrow]

Am I the only one who thinks a group of Wyoming landowners may try to get together, form some sort of "Ranchers for property rights" group and try to get laws changed to make corner crossing illegal in Wyoming after this?

#UPOW

 

[ccc23454]

We just need to have Longmire and joe pickett sit down and figure this out!

 

[JM77]

The latest from Carbon County: https://wyofile.com/prosecutor-dismiss-new-corner-crossing-charges/

 

[Luke_with_a_lab]

What a circus. What is this DA's damage. Has public pressure just become too much so she dismissed the charges? Why file them then ask for them to be dismissed.

 

[BuzzH]

What a circus. What is this DA's damage. Has public pressure just become too much so she dismissed the charges? Why file them then ask for them to be dismissed.

She did it to sway the jury in the trial.

 

[winmag]

She did it to sway the jury in the trial.

Pretty damn crooked.

 

[idahohuntr]

I know this does not set any legal precedent - but in all practicality it seems Carbon County just threw in the towel? And I would imagine it raised the bar on other county prosecutors wanting to take on a case with similar fact patterns.

Also, as many of us mentioned earlier in this thread - the landowners who try and block access have been the beneficiaries of ambiguity/uncertainty in corner cross legality...do folks think these landowners will stop digging and not get pushy about demanding citations and lawsuits or even legislation given it clearly has the potential to go very badly for them?

 

[mountainlaurel3]

One issue I have is consistency, fishing for example. It is 100% legal to float a river across private and fish it, it's also legal to get out of the boat to bypass obstacles. How does that align with this????

In WY specifically, yeah? Maybe in all the other states of the west, too, but not CO. You can float, but you cannot touch the private streambed here, even to get around an obstacle. Speaking of stupid rules lacking common sense...

 

[Khunter]

is there a photo of the ladder used for this corner cross somewhere? just curious.

 

[runningmt]

If you're not 100% sure, you shouldn't say it. How do you know what was there?

If everything on HT was 100% accurate, there’d be like 3 posts……

This one of mine wouldn’t be here either

 

[winmag]

is there a photo of the ladder used for this corner cross somewhere? just curious.

Heavy duty!

 

[Khunter]

Thanks! I was envisioning hauling quarters of something a lot taller for some reason.

 

[Scott85]

Money bars 6’ tall, 6’ long, you climb up and walk along the top.