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Cockfighting still legal in AL, if you do it right !
Jury: 5 defendants not guilty in cockfighting trialBy Nancy Glasscock
MOULTON Five men on trial in connection with the 2011 raid of a suspected cockfight were found not guilty on all charges today by a Lawrence County jury.
Joseph Lynn Holmes, 36, of Hanceville; Larry Dale McCroy, 53, of Hanceville; Zackary Clay McLeroy, 33, of Cullman; James Russell Garnett, 34, of Vinemont; and Grady Darrel McCroy, 54, of Cullman faced charges of cruelty to animals and gambling on cockfighting in connection to the August 2011 raid.
Testimony began Tuesday and concluded with only one witness being called, Lawrence County Drug Task Force investigator Shannon Holland. Holland testified that through a confidential informant, he received information about a cockfight held at the edge of Bankhead National Forest at a residence off Lawrence County 81.
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Dutton also argued gamecocks are not animals, according to Websters dictionary, because they do not have four legs or fur.
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Larry McCroy said after testimony concluded he disagreed with {Judge} Craigs instructions stating chickens are animals.
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more (not for the overly squeamish): http://decaturdaily.com/stories/Jury-5-defendants-not-guilty-in-cockfighting-trial,105415
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Cockfighting still legal in AL, if you do it right ! (Original Post)
eppur_se_muova
Oct 2012
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Helen Reddy
(998 posts)1. FFS!
These men should be instantly vaporized. I can only imagine what these stinkers are doing to the women in their lives, their children.
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)2. I will not make any cracks about Alabama. I will not make any cracks about Alabama. I will not make
"Dutton also argued gamecocks are not animals, according to Websters dictionary, because they do not have four legs or fur."
Creation Science!1!!!!
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flvegan
(64,626 posts)4. I'd be stunned, if not for considering.
Cousinfuckers are what they are. Wait...when did the USDA and the govt go by Webster's "defined by dipshits" definition of "animal" anyway?
Prosecution, upon reading this article, you are too fucking stupid to ever argue anything ever again. Morons.