United States v. Spann

*1199 MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

JAMES P. O’HARA, United States Magistrate Judge.

I. Introduction

The ultimate outcome of this probation-violation matter hinges largely on the meaning of the verb “hunt.” This is something the defendant, William Spann, who’s a professional big-game hunter, was specifically prohibited from doing anywhere in the United States for six months following his recent conviction in this court on a deer-hunting offense.

On June 27 and 28, 2013, the undersigned U.S. Magistrate Judge, James P. O’Hara, conducted an evidentiary hearing under Rule 32.1 of the Federal Rules of Criminal…