What is the name of your state? CA
Last year, I found a dead female deer in my backyard. In a spur of the moment reaction, I grabbed my rifle and took a photo with it, posing next to the deer. I posted it on my website and now, a year or so later, local animal activists got wind of this and stole the photo from my website (which I now took down)
They claim that I killed the deer by shooting it illegally because:
1) it was female
2) datestamp on the photo was taken outside of deer season (although i dont quite remember the date, it may have been IN deer season..they could have changed the datestamp to strengthen their case)
What are the rules of evidence about this seeing that:
1) Their main evidence is a stolen photo from my website - dont i have intellectual property rights?
2) can evidence be considered tampered or non-admissable because :
A) they dont own the photo and were not the photographers - it was stolen from my site
B) datestamp could have been tampered/altered since it was in electronic format
C) photo "evidence" was not collected by law enforcement agency / officer/park ranger, etc - just a bunch of hippies with a grudge, clicking on the net
they dont have a right to be reposting that on their bambi-lover website or submitting it in the court and media, do they?
They put me in the local news paper and local tv saying i killed this female deer, which is illegal. Isnt this slander/libel?
I told them I found the deer already dead - but now theyre saying i was in possession of a dead female deer with a gun, so its as good as caught.
I dont have any proof of the dead deer anymore because I called animal services anonymously that day and they said they would charge me $200 to clear the deer from my back yard. So I disposed of the deer by just dragging it into the street, making it the city's problem to dispose of. After all, it was probably hit in the street anyways and crawled into my yard to die or something. Im Not sure if someone picked it up from the sidewalk later on, or a civilian picked it up but the next day it was gone already. So there is no record with animal services of any deer taken from the street around that date.
Last year, I found a dead female deer in my backyard. In a spur of the moment reaction, I grabbed my rifle and took a photo with it, posing next to the deer. I posted it on my website and now, a year or so later, local animal activists got wind of this and stole the photo from my website (which I now took down)
They claim that I killed the deer by shooting it illegally because:
1) it was female
2) datestamp on the photo was taken outside of deer season (although i dont quite remember the date, it may have been IN deer season..they could have changed the datestamp to strengthen their case)
What are the rules of evidence about this seeing that:
1) Their main evidence is a stolen photo from my website - dont i have intellectual property rights?
2) can evidence be considered tampered or non-admissable because :
A) they dont own the photo and were not the photographers - it was stolen from my site
B) datestamp could have been tampered/altered since it was in electronic format
C) photo "evidence" was not collected by law enforcement agency / officer/park ranger, etc - just a bunch of hippies with a grudge, clicking on the net
they dont have a right to be reposting that on their bambi-lover website or submitting it in the court and media, do they?
They put me in the local news paper and local tv saying i killed this female deer, which is illegal. Isnt this slander/libel?
I told them I found the deer already dead - but now theyre saying i was in possession of a dead female deer with a gun, so its as good as caught.
I dont have any proof of the dead deer anymore because I called animal services anonymously that day and they said they would charge me $200 to clear the deer from my back yard. So I disposed of the deer by just dragging it into the street, making it the city's problem to dispose of. After all, it was probably hit in the street anyways and crawled into my yard to die or something. Im Not sure if someone picked it up from the sidewalk later on, or a civilian picked it up but the next day it was gone already. So there is no record with animal services of any deer taken from the street around that date.
