The Hammonds were convicted (by District Judge Michael Hogan in Eugene the day
before he retired) for arson in their attempt to hide evidence of poaching.
After sentencing them for time way below federal guidelines, they were
re-sentenced correctly by Judge Anne Aiken, in the same district that Hogan
served.
That re-sentencing was one of the excuses the Bundyites used in their take-over
of Malheur. The Hammonds rejected the Bundy support, agreed to serve the new
sentences and are currently in prison.
Judge Hogan was famous for ruling numerous times against protection of salmon
for old-growth forests.
From the LA TIMES:
September 15, 1995 | Times Staff and Wire Reports
Court Victory for Timber Industry: U.S. District Judge Michael Hogan in Eugene,
Ore., ruled that budget legislation Congress passed this year requires the
Clinton Administration to release to loggers thousands of acres of old-growth
timber previously withheld for environmental reasons.
NEWS
Judge Keeps Salmon From Threatened List
October 31, 2001 | From Times Wire Reports
A federal judge in Eugene refused to restore Oregon coastal coho salmon to the
threatened species list. Ruling from the bench, U.S. District Judge Michael J.
Hogan denied a motion by conservation groups to stay his earlier ruling that
lifted protections for the fish under the Endangered Species Act. The fish
spawn in streams on the northern two-thirds of the Oregon coast.
NEWS
Federal Judge Cancels Coho Salmon Protection
September 15, 2001 | From Times Wire Reports
A federal judge threw out a regulation that protected coho salmon spawned in
the Oregon wild but not those raised in hatcheries, saying it didn't make sense
to distinguish between the two. District Judge Michael J. Hogan said the
National Marine Fisheries Service was arbitrary and capricious in 1998 when it
put Oregon coastal coho born in the wild onto the threatened species list
without extending the same protection to those from hatcheries.
