Found guilty of all 3 counts in District Court... When the Judge rendered the verdict he said.... "Retired Game Warden" is a friend of mine and he has given 25 years f service as a game warden and I value his opinion..... GUILTY!!

Unfortunantely, being unfamiliar with the court system, we did not know that there was no court reporter present so none of this is on record.

We appealed to Circuit Court- filed a motion to dismiss, which was denied - according to our attorney- at 6 pm the night before we were suppose to go back to court.

When we arrived in the court room...our attorney and the prosecution went up to the judges bench... After this our attorney aked all of us to step outside. At this point he said that if the boys plead guilty we could appeal (which is not true- only for a lighter sentence) or we could go to trial but that oneonta the charges had 6 months in jail which she could impose. All 3 boys said hey WOULD NOT PLEAD GUILTY TO SOMETHING THEY DID NOT DO.

So we re-entered the courtroom and proceeded with trial.