Horse breeder sentenced to jail on five charges

Some of the Leachman horses close Billings inwards Montana, at the fourth dimension of the Jan 2011 hay delivery.

Former Equus caballus breeder James Leachman has been sentenced to jail inwards Montana on 5 misdemeanor counts of cruelty to animals.

Justice of the Peace Larry Herman gave Leachman consecutive one-year sentences on each of the the 5 counts for a amount of 5 years’ jail.

However, the guess suspended all but 120 days of the sentence. He every bit good banned Leachman from owning whatsoever hoofed brute for the duration of his sentence. He was every bit good ordered to pay $US5000 inwards fines.

Leachman,70, had defended the charges earlier  jury inwards Yellowstone County Justice Court.

He owned to a greater extent than than 800 horses ultimately removed from Crow tribal land.

The charges related to 5 horses inwards particular. Prosecutors alleged he failed to supply adequate attention together with failed to accommodate or take plastic leg bands every bit the horses grew, resulting inwards severe injuries.

Leachman has filed an appeal.

Issues some Leachman’s horses from the old Leachman Cattle Co Home Place ranch, sold inwards a federal foreclosure sale, came to a caput belatedly inwards 2010.

A large relief endeavor got nether agency because of concerns for the wellbeing of the horses during the Montana winter, alongside several hundred of them inwards a huge pasture alongside lilliputian feed.

Feed was trucked together with airlifted to the horses to croak on them fed inwards an functioning co-ordinated through the Northern International Livestock Exposition inwards Billings.

In March the next year, virtually 700 horses from the ranch were gathered past times virtually l horsemen from the Crow Tribe. The horses were ultimately sold.

 

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