Vaden v. State

Undercover wildlife agents posed as hunting clients of guides Vaden and Saltz (defendants) and personally shot game (foxes, caribou, and fish) in violation of closed seasons and equipment restrictions, with the guides supplying equipment, direction, and, in Saltz's case, killing a caribou himself. Both guides were convicted as accomplices to the illegal hunting; they argued that the public authority justification defense available to the agents themselves, who acted under government authorization, should extend to them as accomplices.