Woman seeks dismissal of falcon case
Keith Cousins Hagadone News Network | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 9 years, 9 months AGO
COEUR d’ALENE — An attorney representing Patti MacDonald has asked for her misdemeanor conviction to be dismissed.
Coeur d’Alene Attorney Michael Palmer filed a motion on July, 7 that claims jurors were not properly instructed when they found MacDonald, 60, guilty of pursuing a hunter’s falcon. The misdemeanor, Palmer wrote, required the prosecution to prove that the protected bird was hunted or taken by MacDonald during the January incident.
“Given the evidence presented, no reasonable juror could have found that Ms. MacDonald ‘pursued’ the bird in question in the sense of hunting or taking it,” Palmer wrote.
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