On 4/11/2011 5:53 PM, Kayak 44 wrote:
Reposting from MTBR...

"30 days, to be served on the sheriff's work detail (picking up
trash). No actual prison to be served, if the Sheriff takes him. The
program costs some money, too. He also gets credit for having been in
custody for 7 days. Judge said picking up trash was a good plan for a
passionate environmentalist like MV.

I've been picking up trash on trails for years. Do I get credit for that
somehow? I would not call MV a passionate environmentalist. What he does
hurts the environment far more than it helps it. A misguided, wannabe
environmentalist, would be more accurate.

Has to stay off the UC trails for 3 years.

A 3 year trail ban is rather short. Of course UC can ban anyone they
want from their trails for as long as they want, should they so choose.

DA asked for 270 days.

Judge said that since MV didn't have a record and no one was really
hurt, lighter sentence was appropriate.

Yeah, that's not an unfair sentence, given the cost to the state of
keeping someone in custody.