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Man Who Killed Beloved Cub Of Grizzly Bear 399 Convicted By Wyoming Jury

After six and a half hours of deliberation, a jury in Jackson Hole, Wyoming has convicted a hunter of illegally killing a young grizzly bear that was the offspring of a famous photogenic mother bear known as Bear 399.

Stephen Westmoreland, 41, had claimed that he was acting in self defense and fear for his life when he shot the grizzly, known to researchers as Bear 615, last autumn from a distance of about 40 yards—nearly half of a football field separated hunter from bear.

Westmoreland, who was hiking out of the Bridger-Teton National Forest at the

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