JACKSON—Assistant U.S. Attorney Ariel Calmes used the word “outlandish” in closing arguments to describe Tom Mangelsen’s response to a minor traffic violation.
“This is a whole lot of work for probably a $150 ticket,” Calmes told U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Carman during a bench trial in the Clifford P. Hansen Courthouse the last week of May.
That ticket was for allegedly slowing and obstructing traffic at the site where Grizzly 610 — a daughter of record-setting celebrity Grizzly 399 — was lying wounded on the side of Highway 26 in Grand Teton National Park after a vehicle strike.
