The activist who tried to throw bison guts on Montana Governor Marc Racicot and other officials at bison slaughter hearing in Gardiner, Montana has been sentenced to 190 days in jail. She was also fined $1090 by Justice of the Peace Deanna Egeland.

Wilson had wanted to argue that her act was an expression of her feelings protected under First Amendment's freedom of speech.  The justice not not let her argue this.  Those who have studied constitutional law will, of course, recognize that symbolic speech, such as Wilson's, received much less protection in the courts.

Wilson apparently received a rather severe sentence because the justice felt she showed no remorse for her action.

The bison entrails were found not to contain the organism that causes brucellosis and undulant fever in humans, although the court noted that Wilson did not know that was the case when she threw the entrails at Racicot, spattering him and the several U.S. senators with blood.

The Justice of the Peace said that splattering bison guts on the governor "could have been
just as lethal as assaulting him with a gun or a knife". I find this very doubtful given that undulant fever not a fatal disease when treated promptly.  Moreover, much of bison beef from the winter bison slaughter by the state of Montana was sold across the country with no special precautions taken.