Ninth Circuit Orders New Trial in Criminal Dumping Case

[Disir]

A self-described “dirt broker” will be getting a new trial after the Ninth Circuit overturned his 2018 conviction for illegally dumping pollutants into nearly 12 acres of protected wetlands.

James Lucero charges trucking companies and contractors a fee in exchange for providing an open space to dump dirt and construction debris.

He was sentenced to 30 months in prison after a federal jury found him guilty on three counts of violating the Clean Water Act by knowingly discharging pollutants into the Mowry Slough — part of the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge in Newark, California.

Ninth Circuit Orders New Trial in Criminal Dumping Case

A self-described “dirt broker” will be getting a new trial after the Ninth Circuit overturned his 2018 conviction for illegally dumping pollutants into nearly 12 acres of protected wetlands.

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This is actually kind of an interesting case.

 

[pknopp]

The court ruled that a judge must properly inform the jury on the law. He can't add anything and he can't leave anything out. I have no problem with that.

 

[laferia52]

The court ruled that a judge must properly inform the jury on the law. He can't add anything and he can't leave anything out. I have no problem with that.

I do not have a problem with that either.the law must be enforced as it is written. judges do not have the power to change the law, that is up to congress