Brad Cape opened a celebratory bottle of bourbon on Friday when he got word from his attorney.
Cape's three hunting partners — Philip Yeomans, John Slowensky and Zach Smith — also felt a weight lifted from their shoulders.
A federal judge ruled that the four Missouri residents didn't trespass when they corner-crossed through the airspace over private land in Wyoming during their 2020 and 2021 hunting trips, sparking a civil lawsuit that had the group facing more than $7 million in alleged damages.
A year after the hunters were declared not guilty in Wyoming criminal court, Chief U.