With a disposition such as yours you would have been instantly disqualified from serving on a jury in this matter, and rightly so.
Furthermore, had the dog been convicted, identified as an Alaskan Husky as the article does, the verdict would have to be thrown out because the dog was not guilty as charged.
There is no such breed identified as an Alaskan Husky. There are Alaskan Malamutes and Siberian Huskies, but no Alaskan Huskies. It would be incumbent upon the court to find an Alaskan Husky to fulfil the charge.
I say this having been a proud owner at one time of a Siberian Husky.
In that the dog is not a "person" it is not clear whether recharging would precipitate a "double-jeopardy" situation.
But this is at its core a pissing match between the judiciary and the executive branch, and since the judiciary has no executive authority, it can order the governor all it wants to and if the governor tells him to screw-off there is not much the judge can do about it.
As it regards the facts of the case I had a pair of mixed breed German Shepherd/Labrador Retrievers who chased a neighbor's poodle out of our yard who had been taunting them My dogs at the time were behind a screen door. They broke the door and chased the poodle across the street and killed it.
We voluntarily replaced the neighbor's poodle and euthanized the dogs because they had "tasted blood."
No court charges or court action was necessary.
FReegards!
