Still testing authority
By GIL BRADY
Star-Tribune correspondent
Filed 11.13.06
JACKSON -- He has been a Bondurant rancher, avant-garde livestock breeder, beef jerky producer, Appaloosa horse-lover, published critic, amateur prospector, wandering cowboy, frequent gadfly and former jailbird on appeal before the Wyoming Supreme Court.
But last Thursday afternoon, the irrepressible Terrence “Terry” Amrein, 60, an ex-con caught between fading icon and dapper eccentric, appeared destined for further controversy outside the heavily guarded Clifford P. Hansen federal courthouse here.
“America cannot afford more federal embarrassment by their court system,” Amrein said moments before entering court, a produce box crammed with papers and records under his arm. “They can’t intimidate me.”
Amrein’s latest legal drama stems from his recent experiences while camping with horses in the Bridger-Teton National Forest.
In 1993, after what he says was a humane livestock experiment that produced “waste-fat-free beef,” Amrein lost an appeal of a lower court’s conviction of cruelty to animals before the state Supreme Court.
Filed 11.13.06
JACKSON -- He has been a Bondurant rancher, avant-garde livestock breeder, beef jerky producer, Appaloosa horse-lover, published critic, amateur prospector, wandering cowboy, frequent gadfly and former jailbird on appeal before the Wyoming Supreme Court.But last Thursday afternoon, the irrepressible Terrence “Terry” Amrein, 60, an ex-con caught between fading icon and dapper eccentric, appeared destined for further controversy outside the heavily guarded Clifford P. Hansen federal courthouse here.
“America cannot afford more federal embarrassment by their court system,” Amrein said moments before entering court, a produce box crammed with papers and records under his arm. “They can’t intimidate me.”
Amrein’s latest legal drama stems from his recent experiences while camping with horses in the Bridger-Teton National Forest.
In 1993, after what he says was a humane livestock experiment that produced “waste-fat-free beef,” Amrein lost an appeal of a lower court’s conviction of cruelty to animals before the state Supreme Court.
Authoring the court’s lone dissent, Justice Walter Urbigkit wrote: “This case provides a continuing examination of the campaign by certain state (including judicial) officials against Terrence Amrein.”
Photo captions & credits: "Terrence 'Terry' Amrein outside federal court" by Gil Brady for The Cowboy Times
Photo captions & credits: "Terrence 'Terry' Amrein outside federal court" by Gil Brady for The Cowboy Times
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