02-21-2004, 04:15 AM
[font "Arial"][#8b0000][size 3]Outdoor Writer/Photographer Ticketed For Feeding Deer in Presque Isle Park
[/size][/#8b0000][/font] [font "Arial"][#000000][size 2]Marquette Mich. — An outdoors photographer and writer who unsuccessfully sued the state after being convicted of illegally feeding deer at Presque Isle Park has been ticketed again on the same charge.
Richard P. Smith was cited recently after a patrolman saw him dropping off cedar boughs to feed deer, Marquette Police Det. Capt. Mike Angeli told The Mining Journal. Neither Smith nor his attorney could be reached for comment.
Smith is accused of violating a Michigan DNR order prohibiting supplemental deer feeding. The misdemeanor charge is punishable by up to 90 days in jail.
Smith was found guilty on the same charge May 2002. He filed suit that December against the DNR and the Marquette County prosecutor’s office.
He claimed a DNR rule barring supplemental deer feeding on public lands without a permit should not apply to the Upper Peninsula.
The lawsuit was dismissed by a circuit court judge last February and by the Michigan Court of Appeals in October. Smith appealed to the Michigan Supreme Court in November, but it has not said if it will hear his case. [/size][/#000000][/font]
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[/size][/#8b0000][/font] [font "Arial"][#000000][size 2]Marquette Mich. — An outdoors photographer and writer who unsuccessfully sued the state after being convicted of illegally feeding deer at Presque Isle Park has been ticketed again on the same charge.
Richard P. Smith was cited recently after a patrolman saw him dropping off cedar boughs to feed deer, Marquette Police Det. Capt. Mike Angeli told The Mining Journal. Neither Smith nor his attorney could be reached for comment.
Smith is accused of violating a Michigan DNR order prohibiting supplemental deer feeding. The misdemeanor charge is punishable by up to 90 days in jail.
Smith was found guilty on the same charge May 2002. He filed suit that December against the DNR and the Marquette County prosecutor’s office.
He claimed a DNR rule barring supplemental deer feeding on public lands without a permit should not apply to the Upper Peninsula.
The lawsuit was dismissed by a circuit court judge last February and by the Michigan Court of Appeals in October. Smith appealed to the Michigan Supreme Court in November, but it has not said if it will hear his case. [/size][/#000000][/font]
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