Just curious, not being a smarty... in your original post you initially said, " I also accept full responsibility for this mess". Then you asked your friend to fight this but only offered to pay half the legal fees. Why only half? In my opinion, and that's all it is, an opinion. If YOU put out the bait without checking the regulations, YOU put the man in the stand without telling him, while it was dark and he didn't even have the opportunity to see it where he could have the chance to identify it or mistake it for a stump. YOU should pay ALL fees/fines. The only thing the man did wrong was trust that you were following the law, and I know you thought you were. Trying to beat it on a technicality is wrong because had you read the regulations you would have either A) not put out the bait, or, B) not put the man in that stand. You wouldn't have argued definitions, interpretations or past legal cases.
