CHEYENNE — Wyoming Supreme Court Justice Keith Kautz lit a fire last March with his jarring dissent in an opinion that came to be known as the hemp case or — in some quarters— an utter mess.
The ruling was 3-2 which was unusual in a court that consistently issues unanimous decisions.
Kautz, since retired who was joined in his dissent by Justice Kari Gray, warned that if the majority opinion in the case was accepted, law enforcement officers would be more liable to being sued for negligence in their investigations…