Dog owners found guilty

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tmptmp
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<a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-032102dogattack_upd.story"; target="_blank">Jury Finds Dog Owners Guilty on All Counts</a> [quote]Verdicts: Marjorie Knoller guilty of second-degree murder in dog mauling; Robert Noel guilty of involuntary manslaughter.<hr></blockquote>



The lawyer for the accused used the same old argument- it was the victim's fault. I honestly think that the lawyer did more harm to her client than good. But then it's kind of hard to warm-and-fuzzy up a couple who were breeding killer dogs for the Aryan Brotherhood.



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  • Reply 1 of 7
    hmurchisonhmurchison Posts: 12,464member
    Yup....Aryan....attractive victim...conviction
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  • Reply 2 of 7
    groveratgroverat Posts: 10,872member
    Wait wait wait...



    Why guilty of second-degree murder?



    (I don't mean in a moral sense, I mean in a legal sense.)
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  • Reply 3 of 7
    tmptmp Posts: 601member
    Under the law you can be found guilty of second-degree murder if you allow a dangerous situation to continue that leads to a death. If you know your dog has a prediliction to attack, and you do not remove the dog to a place where it cannot attack someone (or muzzle it), and it attacks and kills someone, you can be charged with second degree murder. Just as in the same way you can be charged for second degree murder if you kill someone while driving drunk or evading the police. It isn't used very often, since a lot of juries tend to not want to convict.



    The last conviction here was for a guy that creamed an elderly Holocaust survivor in a stolen SUV while he was running from the cops in Woodland Hills. He basically showed no trace of remorse, and this helped to get him convicted.
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    groveratgroverat Posts: 10,872member
    Thanks for the explanation.
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    outsideroutsider Posts: 6,008member
    I heard that the prosecution had a tape of the dog owner having sex with her dog. But it could not be admitted as evidence. Too funny.



    But gross.

    <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=1615389&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=4 4551&rfi=8" target="_blank">http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=1615389&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=4 4551&rfi=8</a>
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    willoughbywilloughby Posts: 1,457member
    How exactly do they "destroy" the dogs? I hate that way of describing it. Just say they killed it.



    What did they do, put a bomb in a bone and make the dog eat it? That sounds more justifiable of using the word "destroyed". <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
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    matsumatsu Posts: 6,558member
    Maybe they could televise the destruction of the dogs as a prelude to televised executions? HAHHAHA!
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