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Attorney 'Cowboy Bob' takes on animal rape case

A man accused of having sex with a miniature horse has retained an attorney with the moniker "Cowboy Bob."
/ Source: NBC News

A man accused of having sex with a miniature horse has retained an attorney with the moniker "Cowboy Bob."

Eric Easley is charged with animal cruelty after an incident in the miniature horse's pen. The owner says the animal was tied up and sexually assaulted. Easley told NBC station WPMI earlier this month that he didn't have sex with the horse.

"You can accuse a bishop in Boston of bastardy, but that don't mean he did anything. You can get a ham sandwich and indict it, but that don't mean the ham sandwich was guilty of anything, except being a bad ham sandwich," Cowboy Bob Clark, who is representing Easley, said Tuesday.

Authorities found the Wilmer man's wallet in the horse's stable, but Easley told WPMI that he lost the wallet while trying to help an injured deer.