Law Practice
Aug. 6, 2015
What's next for Cecil the lion's killer?
When he shot the celebrated lion in Zimbabwe, did Dr. Walter Palmer violate U.S. law? And could he be extradited?
Julie L. Kessler
PO Box 1582
Manhattan Beach , CA 90267-1582
Phone: (310) 403-0009
Email: Julie@VagabondLawyer.com
George Washington Univ Law School
Julie is an attorney based in Los Angeles, a freelance writer for several publications, and the author of the award-winning book "Fifty-Fifty, The Clarity of Hindsight." She can be reached at www.VagabondLawyer.com
If Internet chatter is any indication, Dr. Walter Palmer is a truly detested man. Palmer, a Minnesota dentist, reportedly paid about $50,000 to hunt and kill a lion in East Africa last month. Unfortunately, he happened to hunt, torture and kill a black-maned lion named Cecil, a protected animal (and part of an Oxford study who was outfitted with a specialized, tracking location collar) in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park. Palmer and his guides lure...
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