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Prosecutors Wrestle Unsuccessfully With a Bear of a Misdemeanor Case

By Martha Neil

Nov 4, 2009, 01:25 pm CST

Was it a bear den, or wasn't it a bear den? That was a central question in an unusual trial of a mentally ill man, who won an acquittal this week in a misdemeanor zoo trespassing case.

Although, in fact, Kenneth Herron did enter the San Francisco Zoo's grizzly grotto… full story