YESS I know, its arguing with an idiot, but I am home with sick kids so next to cleaning up puke, this is what I am doing.
When you illegally kill the elk, that is ONE crime, THEN you cut the head off, leave the body THATS NUMBER TWO. You then decide to transport the head to another unit, YOU KNOW YOU DECIDE AND PLAN BEFORE DOING THE CRIME WHEN TO MOVE IT, HOW, AND WHERE(the very definition of premeditated) to do it is NUMBER 3.
See TRI as usual you have a sliver of an idea or thought, then you try to expand.
You might could argue they were just out cruising around the NEBO, saw this elk and just shot it, without preplanning to do so. So yes the actual illegal kill POSSIBLY could be spur of the moment(I don't believe that to be true, but proof and feeling are different).
Now, why cut the head off? Because you PLANNED TO DO SO. Why not simply run away? Call DWR and claim a mistake? BECAUSE YOU PRE PLANNED, (you know premeditated) what you were doing, how to do it, the animal you were chasing, and how you THOUGHT you could pass it off as coming from another unit.
But lets get real. These boys had watched this bull, planned when to kill it, how to hide the body, what road to take to transport it, where they would CLAIM they shot it, and the lies that would accompany that.
See TRI, they didn't simply illegally kill a bull, had they you might have a point, they killed it, wanton wasted the body, illegally transported it, lied to UDWR, created fraud by tagging it with the wrong tag.
Thanks again for your help TRI.
"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun"