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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - An animal-rights activist drew a maximum six-month jail sentence Tuesday for sneaking onto New York state's largest egg farm to videotape thousands of chickens confined in small wire cages.
Adam Durand, 26, was convicted earlier this month on three counts of criminal trespassing, a misdemeanor. Besides the jail term, he was fined $1,500, ordered to perform 100 hours of community service and placed on a year's probation.
Durand maintained he had no intention of removing birds from the farm operated by Rochester-based supermarket chain Wegmans where 700,000 hens produce more than a half-million eggs a day.
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