In the late hours of a March evening in 2010, a U.S. Forest Service law enforcement officer, Christopher A. Upton, a 37-year-old male, was on patrol in the Oconee National Forest in Jasper County, Georgia. He was conducting surveillance at the Ocmulgee Bluff Equestrian Trailhead, an area that had been the subject of recent complaints. Little did he know that a group of men were also in the woods that night, hunting for coyotes with a high-powered rifle equipped with a night-vision scope.
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