[Vision2020] Fwd: Claude Dalllas to be released tomorrow

[Bill London]

Or if I decide that zoning ordinances do not apply to me and I can put a
college in downtown Moscow when the comprehensive plan and the zoning rules
clearly do not allow colleges?
BL




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pat Kraut" <pkraut at moscow.com>
To: "vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Fwd: Claude Dalllas to be released tomorrow


> "by government agents enforcing game laws he didn't
> believe applied to him."
> So, if I start running red lights because they get in my way and don't
have
> anything to do with me or my agenda an Idaho jury will let me off?? That
> anyone could outright kill two people of any employment and get out of the
> death penalty is incredable. It is a horrible miscarriage of justice.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Scott Dredge" <sdredge at yahoo.com>
> To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 1:07 PM
> Subject: [Vision2020] Fwd: Claude Dalllas to be released tomorrow
>
>
> Idaho Killer Claude Dallas to Be Released
>
> Sat Feb 5,10:28 AM ET
>
> By JOHN MILLER, Associated Press Writer
>
> OWYHEE COUNTY, Idaho - Idaho's most infamous outlaw,
> Claude Dallas, killed two state officers in a remote
> desert 24 years ago in a crime that brought him
> notoriety as both a callous criminal and a modern-day
> mountain man at odds with the government.
>
> Now a bespectacled 54-year-old, Dallas is to be
> released from prison Sunday after serving nearly 22
> years for the execution-style slayings of Conley Elms
> and Bill Pogue, officers for the Idaho Department of
> Fish and Game.
>
> The case has been among the most polarizing in Idaho
> history, with some expressing disgust at how Dallas
> has gained a measure of folk-hero status among those
> who rally against the establishment.
>
> Some compared him to Gordon Kahl, a tax-evader killed
> by U.S. marshals in North Dakota in 1983; to Randy
> Weaver, the protagonist in the 1992 Ruby Ridge
> standoff; or even to Timothy McVeigh (news - web
> sites), the Oklahoma City bomber.
>
> "Those cases always end up getting connected after the
> fact," said Jess Walter, the Spokane, Wash.-based
> author of a book about Weaver. "But at the time, they
> were just having trouble with law enforcement."
>
> Dallas' 1986 jailbreak only heightened the legend
> perpetuated by his friends, that his rugged lifestyle
> got crossways with a heavy-handed U.S. government.
> Dallas hid for nearly a year before he was caught and
> sent back to prison. He was charged in the escape, but
> acquitted by a jury after he testified he had to break
> out because the prison guards threatened his life.
>
> "It's sure an emotional issue, and his release has
> heightened those emotions," said Jon Heggen, head of
> the Fish and Game Department's enforcement bureau.
> "There's been a lot of tears shed the last two weeks."
>
> Dallas' 30-year sentence was cut by eight years for
> good behavior.
>
> He was convicted of manslaughter in 1982 for shooting
> the officers, who had entered his winter camp on the
> South Fork of the Owyhee River, one of the West's
> least-populated regions, to investigate reports of
> illegal trapping.
>
> Jim Stevens, a friend of Dallas who was visiting the
> camp, witnessed the killings.
>
> According to evidence at the trial, Pogue, who had
> drawn his own weapon, was hit first with a shot from
> Dallas' handgun. Dallas then shot Elms two times in
> the chest as the warden emerged from the trapper's
> tent, where he'd found poached bobcats.
>
> Dallas then used a rifle to fire one round into each
> man's head.
>
> The 28-day trial made national headlines, with Dallas
> claiming the game wardens were out to get him. A group
> of women - who became known as the "Dallas
> Cheerleaders" - gathered daily to support him.
>
> A jury of 10 women and two men acquitted Dallas of
> murder, finding him guilty of the lesser charge of
> voluntary manslaughter instead.
>
> "We remain horrified somebody could have gotten
> manslaughter for cruelly killing our people, and then
> following it up with shots from a .22 rifle," said
> former Fish and Game Director Jerry Conley, who
> testified at Dallas' sentencing.
>
> But one of Dallas' lawyers, Bill Mauk, still sees
> Dallas as a victim: He fired on the officers after his
> privacy had been violated and after he was threatened
> by government agents enforcing game laws he didn't
> believe applied to him.
>
> Jury foreman Milo M. Moore, a retired shopkeeper, said
> Dallas might have been freed outright if he hadn't
> used his .22 caliber rifle. Moore said testimony about
> Pogue's reputation as a tough-guy lawman influenced
> the verdict.
>
> "We felt it was self-defense up to a certain point,"
> Moore said in a recent interview. "Had he not shot
> them in the head, it would have been a different
> verdict."
>
> Moore said Pogue had come "gunning" for the poacher,
> and said Pogue was on trial in some jurors' minds more
> than Dallas.
>
> Dallas' story inspired a television movie, and writer
> Jack Olsen chronicled the crime in a book called "Give
> a Boy a Gun."
>
> "Claude Dallas," a ballad written by
> singer-songwriters Ian Tyson and Tom Russell, and sung
> by Tyson, romanticizes Dallas' lifestyle and life on
> the lam, saying: "It took 18 men and 15 months to
> finally run Claude down. In the sage outside of
> paradise, they drove him to the ground."
>
> Kevin Kempf, the warden at the Idaho Correctional
> Institution at Orofino, where Dallas has been since
> Jan. 15 when he was moved from a Kansas prison, won't
> say where Dallas will be released.
>
> "He's prepared," Kempf said. "It doesn't appear he's
> going to be leaving our facility without any direction
> or without a plan."
>
> Dallas did not respond to interview requests from The
> Associated Press.
>
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