ECO-CRIMES: Superior Court Judge William W. Bedsworth...
ECO-CRIMES: Superior Court Judge William W. Bedsworth warns in this month’s Sierra magazine that prosecutors are now cracking down on ecological crimes. “Prosecutors now find themselves representing not just California’s people, but at times its animals, waters, and land,” Bedsworth writes. . . . What prompted his piece: His sentencing of a decent church-goer to state prison for dumping toxic paint solvents in a landfill.
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