Endangered species act

[Ron Gatrelle]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Soukup" <mikayak3 at home.net>
Subject: Re: Endangered species act


 If you accidentally kill an endangered specie in the USA, keep your mouth
shut, don't tell anybody, and mis-label your specimen!!!
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Ron: (This is only what I heard happened in court.)  Specimen labels were
used as solid evidence of _guilt_, but were not allowed as evidence of
_innocence_.    It worked like this.  If a confiscated specimen had a label
that said it was collected in an unlawful location and the date was post
its listing then that was admitted as "finger print" type evidence that
that date and place was absolute.   But when defendants pointed to label
data that stated the specimens were collected decades before listing and in
legal areas,  that was not allowed in their defense as the prosecutors said
" they could have just written false data on the labels."    Now all labels
were written by the same person - the one from whom they were confiscated.
Where is equal application of law/evidence here?

It will apparently do no good to have non-incriminating data on specimens -
true or false.

Ron



 
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