Nevada County Superior Court Judge Candace Heidelberger found there was sufficient evidence to try 19-year-old Carter Livingston on a charge of cruelty to animals. But she also decided the case would be more appropriately tried as a misdemeanor, rather than as the felony originally charged by the District Attorney's Office.Livingston, of Lake of the Pines, allegedly posted a video on Facebook that showed him hitting an opossum 44 times with a meat cleaver as his 8-year-old brother and 10-year-old sister watched; his then-15-year-old sister was filming the incident. The incident came to light in June 2010, after a woman who …