Correction: The Boundary County Sheriff's Department is now reporting that the grizzly shot by Jeremy Hill was one of the cubs, a 2-year-old silvertip, and not the mother grizzly.

A North Idaho man deserves our respect for calling wildlife authorities after he shot a grizzly bear in his yard on May. 8. That was the right thing to do. It was a stand-up lesson to the five children Jeremy M. Hill said he was defending in his Porthill-area home.  But that doesn’t necessarily mean shooting the bear was the right thing to do. It’s not clear the 2-year-old male silvertip was doing anything more than trying to survive unusually harsh spring conditions along with its mother and sibling, fresh out of their den. Hill, 33, pleaded not guilty in federal court Monday to charges of killing a grizzly, a threatened species protected under the Endangered Species Act/Rich Landers, SR. More here.

Question: Is it wrong to choose up sides before trial for the North Idaho man accused of killing a grizzly bear who'd wandered into his yard with two cubs?