I honestly don’t think anyone from this site spoke to his lawyer; I think you’ve just experienced the reality of social media. A quick search of someone’s name and if they post on any online forum or website it’s easy to pull up everything they’ve ever shared.
Any lawyer worth beans would have done a search of your name; they’d be doing their client a disservice if they didn’t and would be incompetent to be blunt. The safe thing to have done would have been to leave it as being “afraid to go in the woods” as they couldn’t disprove that. That would have laid the basis for emotional distress and left them little option to try and fight it.
If you want to test this theory do a google search of anyone on this forum and see what I mean. Take a breath and calm down; I seriously doubt anyone here would sell you or anyone else out like that.
Peace brother….
"Apparently someone from our site has been contacting his lawyer."
That doesn't surprise me, nor can I refute Mike's suggestion.
"Because I said in my statement today I refuse to enter the woods." Had you only said, "those woods", right?
Bummer.
For one, you posted on a few CT Facebook pages and that's public information.
Another thing, when this first happened I googled the information you provided and I found the aholes name, address and just about anything available.
Another search with DEEP would show your tagged Deer info online with them. Or they just ask the State. As said before, they have full-time people to find every detail about you.
Don't give up, we're all behind you.
With all due respect that's simply not true; check the threads below and you'll find quite a number of posters offered some pretty good advice on what to do to try and get justice served.
https://forums.bowsite.com/tf/regional/thread.cfm?threadid=261877&messages=34&state=Ct
https://forums.bowsite.com/tf/regional/thread.cfm?threadid=260935&messages=64&state=Ct#2946653
I'm really disappointed in the amount of help offered.
If you're referring to advice, as I said, check the threads; if you mean physically being present to support Shawn, yes, that's disappointing but before casting aspersions I'd consider how many people had work commitments that day. I spent all day at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield in the lab setting up new equipment and training the techs as well as a meeting with the Trauma team on a quality initiative to reduce complications associated with trauma surgery.
As far as anyone here being a "poser" that's uncalled for. On these threads I can name several posters, some of whom are former UBC members who have done a hell of a lot for everyone who bow hunts in CT over the years. Longbeard, Tall1, Gene, Ace and others have attended countless public hearings, some of which resulted in the Sept 15th start to archery season and many went through long, frustrating years before we finally got some form of Sunday hunting passed.
As I've yet to roll out of bed perfect I'm fine with chalking that comment up to frustration and in this case, it's understandable; you had a front row seat to a friend getting run over by the "justice system."
Everyone needs to take a breath, step back and calm down. This kind of in-fighting is a perfect encapsulation of why we struggle so often to get common sense changes passed; we can't get out of our own way and we get our asses handed to us by those who stay on point.
As Pogo once said, "we have met the enemy and it is us."
to Bigern: If you want to know what I did, and where I was on Friday instead of in New London, PM me you're #, and we'll talk on the phone. Oh by the way, Bob Crook is retired, BUT there is a group it's called Friends of Conn Sportsmen, we have a full time lobbyist in Hartford and we have built some incredibly close relationships with a number of CT legislators, but we ALL need to become Citizen Activists if hunting is to survive in CT. -I assume both your State Rep and State Senator speak to you on a regular basis right? If not get to know them and their positions, and talk to them A LOT. That part applies to us all! -Mine do know me, and they are both ranking members on the Env. Comm. We have some friends, just not enough of them. Yet.
To: Shawn, sorry I couldn't be there Fri, I was hoping to be but it didn't work out. Let's not assume this is over ... quite yet. Call me and I'll explain. BTW: How about a spring turkey hunt on private land? Bow or shotgun your choice. I have a place with good numbers of birds. You have my number ... btw, I'm no expert caller, maybe we'll get Rich to call them in. Bud I know you feel abandoned and defeated, but the best advice I can give you is: Ask yourself is that asshole is going to win by keeping you from doing what you love or if you'll come back triumphant. Remember: What doesn't kill you make your stronger ... except bears they will kill you!
To Everyone else: Let's learn from this, all we have is each other, our numbers are shrinking and if we don't do more, they will continue to shrink.
Frankly, I’ve only seen people on this site be extremely supportive of Shawn from day 1. Plenty of threads dedicated to Shawn.
Shawn, not having an attorney by your side hurt ya big time! I’ve said it from day 1, this bastard who shot you was politically connected & they screwed you without any hesitation. Having an attorney could’ve prevented this.
Plenty here have asked whether you retained counsel. You never replied.
Also, I too was under the impression you haven’t hunted since this incident and now there’s actual proof of you killing a deer since then. That looks horrible on your end and mitigates any alleged trauma you’ve sustained as a result of this & hate to say it, you come across as stretching the truth.
2 things - A court can seriously doubt the veracity of your claim/position if the court believes you lied. The Court adheres to the theory of Falsus In Uno - which means false in 1 thing - false in everything. An attorney could’ve helped you with your statement and approach your situation in a different way. They may have even suggested you don’t even give a statement.
I tried to help you man - I’m not gonna go into what depths, but I’m not sure you’ve told others the full extent of what some of us have done and/or tried to do. If you did, we wouldn’t be called “posers” etc…
There’s another expression in the legal business, “He who represents himself has a fool for a client.” If anything , I hope you learned something. Sometimes, life sucks.
