Kicker: Disney sentence

MARY REICHARD, HOST: A man in Missouri was caught illegally poaching deer.

Officials nabbed David Berry Jr. in one of the largest deer poaching cases in state history. The prosecuting attorney said hundreds of animals were taken under cover of darkness. Berry and others of his family took only the heads and antlers, and left the bodies to waste. It was all about greed and ego.

As part of his sentence, Judge Robert George ordered Berry to watch a movie.

And not just any movie!

AUDIO: Come on, get up Bambi! Get up, try again!

Berry must view the Walt Disney classic Bambi once a month for the next year inside the Lawrence County jail. That, in addition to thousands of dollars in fines and court costs and suspension of hunting privileges.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

(Lawerence County Sheriff via AP) This undated photo provided by in Lawerence County Sheriff in Mt. Vernon, Mo., shows David Berry Jr. Berry was ordered to watch the Walt Disney movie at least once each month during his one-year jail sentence in what conservation agents are calling one of the largest deer poaching cases in state history. 

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