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Parties Involved:
Karl Sennert
Defendant
USA
Plaintiff

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

13 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 6: 15-MJ-0003-MJS 

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Plaintiff, 

v. 

KARL SENNERT, 

Defendants. 

STIPULATED FACTS FOR TRIAL 

1. On October 8, 2014, at approximately 5:00P.M., Defendant, Karl Sennert was 

driving, alone, eastbound on Tioga Road , Highway 120, in Yosemite National 

Park. 

2. Defendant was at that time and place, driving a Ford F250 pickup truck to 

which was attached, and being towed , a 45 foot Voltage "fifth wheel" 

trailer/recreational vehicle. 

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2 3. The Voltage trailer was equipped with a built-in 175 gallon fresh water storage 

3 tank which Defendant Sennert reports he had filled to excess before leaving 

4 his home in Arnold , California, the morning of October 8, 2014. 

5 4. Defendant Sennert asserts that the fresh water tank on the trailer sloshed 

6 water out of its overflow valve when over-filled, when going around curves 

7 which caused the trailer to tilt, and/or when the plastic tank expanded as a 

8 result of natural forces. 

9 5. The Voltage trailer was equipped with a built-in 100 gallon holding tank for the 

10 accumulation of blackwater waste from the trailer's toilets. 

11 6. Defendant Sennert asserts that the waste holding tank had been emptied well 

12 before he began his trip on October 8, 2014, and that it was and remained 

13 empty at all times during the October 8, 2014, trip. 

14 7. Defendant Sennert asserts that while driving along Tioga Road on October 8, 

15 2014, a loose electrical connection between the pickup truck and the trailer, 

16 caused a "Trailer Disconnected" message to appear on the pickups' 

17 dashboard display. In response, he pulled over into the first turn-out on the 

18 north side of Tioga Road just east of the May Lake junction on Tioga Road 

19 and again a short distance further east on a turn-out on the south side of 

20 Tioga Road near Tioga lake and, in both instances, adjusted the electrical 

21 connection between the pickup and the trailer and to reconnect the brakes. 

22 8. While Defendant Sennert was stopped on the north side of Tioga Road as 

23 above noted, one Bradley Fox, a front passenger in an automobile, in which 

24 Kathy Camp sat as a passanger in the left rear seat, pulled in behind 

25 Defendant Sennert's parked pickup and trailer. Defendant Sennert entered his 

26 pickup and drove away. Fox and Camp noticed liquid waste on the ground 

27 under Defendant Sennert's truck and on observing it and smelling the odor 

28 emanating therefrom, concluded it was human waste. 

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1 9. Subsequent inspection of the liquid waste led investigating National Park 

2 Service Law Enforcement Rangers Rebecca Church and Sally Sprouse to 

3 conclude that it was human waste and that it covered an area approximately 

4 50 feet long and 10 feet wide. 

5 These facts are fully supported by evidence proffered on behalf of the U.S. and/or 

6 the Defense, not in dispute and stipulated to be true without the need to reference the 

7 supporting evidence. 

8 IT IS SO STIPULATED this 61

h day of August, 2015. 

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Dated: August 6, 2015 

Dated: August 6, 2015 

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SUSAN ST. VINCENT 

Legal Officer 

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Counsel for Defendant Karl Francis 

Sennert 

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