United States v. Larry Ventling

Facts

Larry Ventling was charged with two counts of blocking or interfering with the use of a United States Forest Service Road in violation of 36 C.F.R. § 261.12(e). Ven-tling had a non jury trial before a magistrate and was convicted. He was sentenced to one year of unsupervised probation and fined $1,000.00. He appeals, alleging as error:

1) the trial court’s failure to dismiss one of the citations because it was not properly signed;

2) that the trial court failed to suppress evidence obtained via an illegal search;

3) that the evidence was insufficient to support the conviction;

4) That the…