GREEN RIVER (Cowboy State Daily) — A Wyoming judge on Wednesday in Green River hinted that he would not dismiss the felony animal cruelty case against an alleged wolf torturer, but would let it go to trial. Roberts appeared in court Wednesday via virtual link from a room or office backlit by a harsh semi circle of light. Sweetwater County District Court Judge Richard Lavery, who is presiding over the Sublette County case after a local judge conflicted out of it, stopped short Wednesday of denying Roberts’s motion to dismiss the case as an unlawful prosecution. But Lavery hinted that he intends to deny that motion and let the case see a jury. “There’s nowhere any risk whatsoever, that a person hunting, lawfully hunting, can be subject to these statutes – because the intent is not there,” added the prosecutor.