The interesting thing about free legal advice is that people treat it as worthless. They usually don't follow it and don't have much gratitude to the lawyer who gives it to them. They think it doesn't cost the lawyer anything, so what the heck.

I've given free advice to scores of people over the years, formally, representing battered women in pro bono divorce, to informally at social events. I was lucky to get a thank you.

People just don't value it, if they don't pay for it. This thread is a good example. Or did I miss the OP saying thank you to Pass-thru?

Jim

The interesting thing about free legal advice is that people treat it as worthless. They usually don't follow it and don't have much gratitude to the lawyer who gives it to them. They think it doesn't cost the lawyer anything, so what the heck.

I've given free advice to scores of people over the years, formally, representing battered women in pro bono divorce, to informally at social events. I was lucky to get a thank you.

People just don't value it, if they don't pay for it. This thread is a good example. Or did I miss the OP saying thank you to Pass-thru?

Jim

I would ignore the advice of the pseudo-lawyers here and listen to Pass-thru, who is a real lawyer.

Jim

OP says "We went from the road across the land I got charged with then onto state land that over looked a river bottom and glassed with binos,the state land is no hunting also, when on state land I took out my folding chair and roll up blind out of my back pack and laid them down to get binoculars out we then glassed a few places overlooking the bottom and forgot my blind and chair when we left. The sheriff followed the tracks in the snow and found my stuff and he took those"
I am trying to figure out why would you carry a blind and binos from the road, to try to retrieve deer with snow on the ground? I think tracking it would have been a much better option.

After talking to the judge I filled out the Claim for Return of Seized Property form and took it to the Clerk of Court who is the Sheriff's wife. Now it will go back to the judge at a hearing and the sheriff's department will or will not be there the judge said, then the judge will decide if it gets returned or not. Now wait and see what happens.