Man found guilty of animal cruelty for stomping opossum
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
(Updated 1:38 pm)
DANVILLE, Va. (AP) — A Virginia man on a police ride-along was found guilty of animal cruelty after he jumped out of the police car and stomped an opossum to death.
The Danville Register & Bee reported today that 23-year-old Evan Bryce Schuler saw the opossum run along a fence. A police officer testified that Schuler ran up to the fence, grabbed the links and "started stomping."
Schuler's lawyer, James Priest, said that Schuler grew up on a farm where opossums killed his chickens and that he acted on instinct. Priest appealed the district court's ruling, and the case will move to circuit court.
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