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Border activist refuses sentence, could face jail
By Philip Franchine
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 6:32 PM MST


Border activist Walt Staton told a federal judge that he will not comply with his sentence of 300 hours of community service because his offense, leaving water jugs in a wildlife refuge, is a matter of international human rights rather than littering, as was charged.

That stance could mean he will get up to a year in prison at Friday’s resentencing hearing, the soft-spoken theology student acknowledged in a telephone interview with the Green Valley News.

“I’m telling the judge I’m not looking for a reduction of hours. I’m not going to do any hours or pay any fine,â€