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Is there a federal trespassing law? | 269 comments | Create New Account

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Is there a federal trespassing law?

Authored by: artp on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 12:02 PM EDT

So Iowa would be a "fence-in" state (I had never heard of
the term before), where the charges are easy, but the
penalties are relatively light. I have never heard of
anybody getting jail time from rural trespassing in Iowa. I
have
heard of farmers getting jail time from trying to keep
trespassers off their land, however. It's easy to get
extreme when the people you are trying to keep off are all
armed.

There was also a landmark case in Iowa back in the 70s,
where a farmer set a tripwire trap armed with a shotgun in
an unoccupied house after several burglaries. He lost the
case.

I don't know if this is really the case, but the laws in
Iowa have been shifting as the population shifts from mainly
rural to mainly urban. Correlation or causation? I don't
know.

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