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Fed. judge in Va. rejects sniper Muhammad's appeal: That's the headline of an AP story on both the WaPo and SFChron sites, but the story doesn't seem to have any text as of this writing. Next stop, the Fourth Circuit. Sentence in SF Dog Mauling Case: Attorney Marjorie Knoller has received a 15- to- life sentence for negligently allowing two dangerous Presa Canario fighting dogs to attack and maul to death 33 year old Dianne Whipple seven years ago. A story by SF Chronicle writer Bob Egelko reports that at sentencing, Judge Charlotte Woolard found that Knoller did practially nothing while her dogs fatally mauled Ms Whipple in the apartment hallway they shared, then later blamed the victim for her own death. Knoller had been warned several times that the dogs were dangerous and should be restrained...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on September 24, 2008 (boomark / email).