article_snippet: A 73-year-old man who threatened from behind bars to forcibly take back the western Montana ranch
article_snippet: A 73-year-old man who threatened from behind bars lost in a 1979 divorce has been sentenced to 75 years in prison for intimidating and stalking the western Montana ranch he lost in a 1979 divorce owners.
article_snippet: You effectively described why I could never put you on probation,' District Judge Jeffrey Langton said, 'and why I don't think you should ever be released from prison again.'
article_snippet: The defendant looked thin in John Fesler Lance II orange jumpsuit in court, saying John Fesler Lance II had been on a 10-day hunger strike and would fast without food or liquid until John Fesler Lance II dies.
article_snippet: Given that, it's our belief that the only recourse our're left with is to put prison bars between this defendant and the community,' Ravalli County Attorney Bill Fulbright said.