Rick Hill is sent to prison

Decatur Daily Democrat:

A rural Decatur man convicted last year of multiple counts of cruelty to horses he owned and of failing to properly dispose of a dead horse was given 543 days in prison and 363 days in jail on Tuesday for violating probation.

Richard A. "Rick" Hill, 60, was sentenced by Adams Superior Court Judge Patrick R. Miller for disobeying judicial orders to have no contact with or possession of any "vertebrate animals."

Miller told Hill that, in regard to the judge's explicit orders in February of 2010, "you don't get it or you don't want to get it. You definitely were trying to find loopholes" in those orders.