BOISE -- The Idaho Attorney General's Office announced Friday morning that no criminal charges will be filed against two Adams County deputies who shot and killed a Council rancher last year.
Attorney General Lawrence Wasden made the decision after completing his review of the shooting death of 62-year-old Jack Yantis.
Yantis was killed Nov.1 after dispatchers asked him to put down one of his bulls that had been hit by a car after wandering onto U.S. 95. After Yantis arrived at the highway below his home with a rifle to kill the animal, he was shot by deputies Cody Roland and Brian Wood. Wood and Roland have been on paid administrative leave since the shooting.
Wasden said that after reviewing more than 5,000 pages of reports, lab results, witness statements and other materials, the evidence was "insufficient to support a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt," according to a press release.
http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/ag-no-charges-for-deputies-who-killed-council-rancher/284357933
Attorney General Lawrence Wasden made the decision after completing his review of the shooting death of 62-year-old Jack Yantis.
Yantis was killed Nov.1 after dispatchers asked him to put down one of his bulls that had been hit by a car after wandering onto U.S. 95. After Yantis arrived at the highway below his home with a rifle to kill the animal, he was shot by deputies Cody Roland and Brian Wood. Wood and Roland have been on paid administrative leave since the shooting.
Wasden said that after reviewing more than 5,000 pages of reports, lab results, witness statements and other materials, the evidence was "insufficient to support a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt," according to a press release.
http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/ag-no-charges-for-deputies-who-killed-council-rancher/284357933
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