Attorney: Defendant facing charges for cutting Lake Maumelle trees is target of grassroots campaign
Dennis Rainey, the Christian lifestyle influencer on trial this week for cutting more than 100 trees on public property to improve his view of Lake Maumelle, is only on trial because he's become the target of both a "grassroots campaign" by environmentalists out to get him and a similarly obsessed government agency that wants to make an example of him through his wallet, his lawyers told a Pulaski County jury on Wednesday.