>I really don't understand all the
>silly snide coments about hybrids????
>
>
>Flopgun,
>
>Like I stated to you before
>and you were clueless to
>know what I was talking
>about until you read the
>article, what these folks say
>about what they saw is
>damn near meaningless now.
>If you have a man
>who confessed to shooting two
>mule deer in one state
>while only being granted one
>mule deer tag, the state
>has shown no hybridization through
>genetic test, and YOU KNOW
>HE CROSSED A STATELINE WITH
>IT ONCE AND HAD INTENT
>TO DO IT A SECOND
>TIME, why in the world
>would you care about dragging
>those "witnesses" into court and
>risk putting any mud in
>the water? You would have
>to be the dumbest prosecutor
>on the planet.
Nowhere have I or anyone else said any of the "witnesses" were going to be called into court now that the guy has been nailed. What was said oh one of little reading comprehension is that the people's photos and video showing the animal was a mule deer and their statements that the buck was alive more than a month after the mule deer season closed when they were taken was what started the investigation. Those allegations, along with the fact that the G&F GW knew the guy had already used his mule deer general tag on another big buck in velvet, got things going. The alleged poached buck was then found at the Expo and that led to a warrant and seizure of the head that was then sent to the G&F Lab to show it wasn't a hybrid. That appears to have been necessary after the guy came up with that goofy reason as to why he shot and tagged it with the late season whitetail tag and to rule that possibility out if the case did proceed to a trial in court. Everything I just mentioned would be used in court if the guy entered a not guilty plea and it ended up going to trial. Now all that will probably be in a written file that will be part of the court record when the case is completed. That will on 4/11 since it appears he has already entered a guilty plea in a preliminary hearing/arraignment that was not mentioned in the article.