ACTION ALERT * * * ACTION ALERT * * * ACTION ALERT
WRITE TO TARRANT COUNTY TEXAS IMMEDIATELY! DEMAND PROSECUTION OF DR. STEVEN VINSON, EMU BEATER, KILLER

July 31, 1997

On July 23 the Tarrant County District Attorney's Office announced it would not press cruelty charges against Dr. Steven Vinson, the medical doctor who (with his brother Russell) beat to death twenty-two penned emus with metal baseball bats on June 27. Dr. Vinson told the humane investigator "he didn't feel like he had done anything wrong."

We need every individual and animal protection group to write a letter to the Tarrant County Grand Jury requesting that they accept this case and prosecute to the full extent of the law.

Please use letterhead if you are representing your organization. Address your letter Attention: Tarrant County Grand Jury.

What Can I Do?






What Can I Do?






What Can I Do?

  • Fax your letter immediately to:
    Don Feare
    Wildlife Rescue Foundation
    fax: 817-483-3944

    Don Feare is coordinating the legal efforts of this case.
    Your letter is needed as quickly as possible.

    Action Alert posted by United Poultry Concerns at the urgent request of Linda Yarbrough, Animal Liberation League (817-640- 2493 office; 817-274-4188 residence).

  • Send a copy of your letter also to:

    Robert Mayfield, Deputy Chief
    Misdemeanor Court
    Tarrant County Criminal Justice Building
    401 West Belknap
    Fort Worth TX 76196
    ph: 817-884-1649; fax: 2499

  • Contact The Texas Dept of Commerce, Tourism Division to voice your concerns about visiting a state that won't proscute animal abusers.

    Tourism Division
    Texas Department of Commerce
    P.O. Box 12728
    Austin, TX 78711
    512-462-9191 (Voice)
    512-320-9698 (TDD)
    512-936-0089 (FAX)

    The also have a Web site where comments can be added to their guestbook (which other visitors can view)
    http://WWW.TravelTex.COM/FS_TalkTheTalk.html

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