Saturday, June 11, 2005

The Dick Dasen Trial: Where Are They Now?

It was a simpler time. Gasoline was sold at $2.45 a gallon. Iraq was occupied by American forces, and no one seemed to care. Civil liberties were being violated. And the trial of Republican philanthropist Dick Dasen, Snr., captured the imagination of four, maybe five, of this country's citizens.

But that was then.

Now, Dick Dasen sits, and sleeps, in a Kalispell jail cell, awaiting sentencing.

Prosecutor Dan Guzyinski is still a prosecutor.

Dasen's attorney, George Best, remains in private practice.

District Judge Stewart Stadtler has not retired from the bench.

Montana continues to be one of the 50 United States.

Life goes on, but one small town in the West has been changed... forever.

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