Posted on 12/24/2014 3:35:15 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
Animal cruelty charges against the son and daughter-in-law of U.S. Senator Jeff Flake and two others will be dismissed after new information came to light about the deaths of 21 dogs at a suburban Phoenix kennel in June, prosecutors said on Monday.
Authorities said the dogs died from overheating and suffocation caused by sweltering conditions in a cramped room of the pet boarding facility while the owners were away in Florida, leaving the animals in the care of Austin and Logan Flake.
However, new evidence brought to prosecutors' attention by defense lawyers after the case was presented to a grand jury showed the kennel's air-conditioning unit had stopped working because of a dirty air-filter.
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So... the air conditioner should have changed it’s own filter, and therefore is criminally negligible.
ping
Laws for me but not for thee.
And if the Flakes had a maintenance contract with someone to ensure that the filters were changed??? I won’t defend a louse but it seems your hatred for a ceertain class of people is overloading your intellect.
That is Arizona's law now by illegal-alien-default.
Libs are having apoplectic fits.
This is totally racist: Michael Vic got send to the federal pen for two years for being involved in the death of a few pit bulls!
The Flakes cannot be held responsible for not changing a filter on an air conditioner they did not own.
Irrelevant. The Flakes were responsible for knowing and protecting the condition of the animals at all times. They should have seen the dangerous conditions and acted to protect them no matter whether they knew what was wrong or not.
Bogus excuse to protect a Senator's family, what a surprise.
Jesse Todd Hughes and Maleisia Hughes
A pet boarding facility run by inhumane people, great
why were charges dropped... I don’t get it.
Who can’t clean out their own air conditioner filter....
seriously
We have precedent:
(Fed) Prosecution cases against inanimate objects, such as US versus a cultivator that ‘allegedly’ harmed kangaroo rats (the special, protected species) in Kern County CA.
Disgusting ,wish I hadn’t read this .Poor little dogs. Poor little puppies, they can’t be hurt now.
The raw filthy power of a Senator.
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They can and should be held responsible for not recognizing that the unit was not functioning.
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Michael Vic hasn’t got an Az Rino, thug Flake, contact to the GJ / DA.
DaDa Flake is indeed above the masses. Good thing it was only dogs with fighting spirit that had to swelter for days. Hell Dogs don’t even complain when they survive this sort of Gross Neglect.
If you be well connected to a Poli-thug, Your bud the Da spins up his Grand. Presto, Killer kid, Killer cop, theirs is win by autodefault. Yours as the commoners may bitch snivel, demonstrate and of course “eat Cake”
Rab.
Well it’s not like he put a dog in a travel crate on the luggage rack on his car.
Apparently thats Real animal cruelty
Ohmy! Feel the love. Merry Christmas.
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