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You want to fix this problem? Allow the landowner to sue in civil courtroom and recover damages directly from the poacher based on what the landowner feels value is.

Poacher gets the criminal charges and fines, then he has to go to civil court. 'He killed my 200in buck i have been watching for 3 years, I need $200,000 pain and suffering the loss of bucky'. Get some quarter of a million dollar judgements against poachers, and it will slow down real quick.
 
megalomaniac said:
You want to fix this problem? Allow the landowner to sue in civil courtroom and recover damages directly from the poacher based on what the landowner feels value is.

Poacher gets the criminal charges and fines, then he has to go to civil court. 'He killed my 200in buck i have been watching for 3 years, I need $200,000 pain and suffering the loss of bucky'. Get some quarter of a million dollar judgements against poachers, and it will slow down real quick.
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A little hyperbolic but your point has merit. Furthermore I believe a landowner can sue for damages. It wouldn't be difficult to provide receipts for monies spent on habitat enhancement and a reasonable cost for time/labor. You would need to convince the judge of potential lost trophy same way a business shows potential lost revenue, but it could be argued in court. With a decent lawyer i suspect you'd easily win, especially given that most dirt bag poachers can't afford their own lawyer. And once one case is won the precedent is set for others to follow.
 
megalomaniac said:
You want to fix this problem? Allow the landowner to sue in civil courtroom and recover damages directly from the poacher based on what the landowner feels value is.

Poacher gets the criminal charges and fines, then he has to go to civil court. 'He killed my 200in buck i have been watching for 3 years, I need $200,000 pain and suffering the loss of bucky'. Get some quarter of a million dollar judgements against poachers, and it will slow down real quick.
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I can't believe it hasn't been done. Its probably been done for private operations.
 
megalomaniac said:
You want to fix this problem? Allow the landowner to sue in civil courtroom and recover damages directly from the poacher based on what the landowner feels value is.

Poacher gets the criminal charges and fines, then he has to go to civil court. 'He killed my 200in buck i have been watching for 3 years, I need $200,000 pain and suffering the loss of bucky'. Get some quarter of a million dollar judgements against poachers, and it will slow down real quick.
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Great idea, until the wealthy gentleman that owns and pours money into his large plot of land starts suing the guy that hunts his 5 acre spot beside him and kills the buck he's after even if it's legal.

Don't act like it wouldn't happen, because it would.
 
How about taking the value off of the antlers on a deer that has been poached? I know that it doesn't make headlines but I guarantee this isn't the first deer that this guy has poached. It seems that these only become noteworthy when it's a big buck. And oftentimes the laws (like in Ohio) tie heavier fines to antlers, which I believe totally misses the point. Allow the landowner to sue based upon other criteria and for the criminal to feel pain before they get to the point of getting experienced enough to feel that they can take out a big, recognizable buck.

But it will likely never happen in TN as long as judges who have to oversee these cases do not make the criminals pay. MAYBE some laws that give the ability to file more civil suits for losses on value of hunting property and maintenance and upkeep would change some judges' minds on poaching being a victimless crime and then they would start enforcing the criminal side of it. But I still believe that a lot of that ties back to small town politics and elected judges, too
 

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