Poaching trial ends in mixed verdict
Daniel Dills waits to hear the jury's verdict in a week-long poaching case.
KAYE THORNBRUGH/Press
COEUR d’ALENE — A Kootenai County jury delivered a mixed verdict Friday in the case of a St. Maries family accused of poaching, convicting them of conspiring to hide evidence of an illegal kill but acquitting them of charges of conspiring to hunt and sell animal parts illegally.
Following a weeklong trial and about 10 hours of deliberation, the 12-person jury found married couple Eddy and Angela Dills and their adult son, Daniel Dills, guilty of conspiracy to conceal evidence, a felony. Jurors acquitted the family of charges of conspiracy to commit unlawful killing of wildlife and conspiracy to sell unlawfully killed wildlife.
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