Posted on 08/31/2014 5:57:16 PM PDT by xzins
Edited on 08/31/2014 6:26:22 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
A jury on Friday found a man guilty of murder after his pit bulls mauled a woman to death in a high desert town in California where residents said they carried rocks and guns for protection against packs of dogs.
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I would like to know in great detail exactly what constituted these "altercations". There lies the key to this being major stupid negligence versus callous maliciousness by knowing the real danger and doing nothing.
Unless you want to get into the police reports and the trial transcripts, you will never know more than the minimal info in this so called news story.
My gut feeling is we are looking at a major A hole whose attitude finally caught up to him. But I'd still like to know a lot more than what we're given here.
Excellent analogy.
Tough call. But it looks like the prosecution knew the owner had knowledge that his dogs were dangerous yet did nothing to get rid of them. To the jury, that added up to more than mere negligence.
A horrible way to die! His penalty should be the maximum.
Legally, maybe but I hope they flay him.
Until the owners start doing serious jail time for aggressive dogs, the problem will continue.
If they make an example of him, other scumbags might start reconsidering their ways.
My first guess that he needed them to protect a meth operation was incorrect. Apparently he was just ran a marajuana growing operation and needed the protection for that.
In any event, a typical pit bull owner.
How did this guy make it through 7 attacks in 18 months without being in serious trouble? After the 1st attack law enforcement should have been all over him. I hope he gets life!
If you start googling his case, he was one nasty dude, aggressive and a grower, with 8 dogs.
I hate Pit Bulls and am glad to see someone suffering the consequences of their actions.
I meant ‘at best criminal negiligence (from the owner’s perspective.)
He should not have even hoped for a better outcome than a conviction for criminal negligence.
That suggests to me that he probably trained his dogs to be mean.
“Devitt died from blood loss after being bitten 200 times, the coroner’s office said. Gashes in her flesh were so deep that bone was exposed. “
What a horrific way to die. One could not imagine the pain this woman went through before expiring.
These losers with these types of vicious animals need to be held fully responsible for their so-called pets.
Never underestimate the public danger of pack dogs. As late as the 1940s in the US, towns would encourage hunters to shoot at packs.
Carry a couple of pistols when you "go jogging" and headshot the dogs when they get too close. Problem solved.
I have Dobermanns.
They are not nice “fuzzy bunny” Dobermanns like most I’ve had over the decades.
If I, through intent or negligence, allow them to harm an *innocent* person, I may as well have killed the person myself.
I’m sure ‘the law’ has lots of minutiae that adds degrees to a charge but *I* would consider myself the killer.
Then again, I am solely/wholly responsible for my dogs’ behavior, bad or good.
I am glad that the punishement may actually fit the crime. Too many people have dogs do their killing for them.
I recall thinking that the law is on the side of pit owners whose dogs kill when reading about a woman killed by pits (2/12/14) after contacting the police 16 times. She certainly tried to do something about the problem but the law absolutely would not help her.
“2/12/14: Victim Made 16 Calls to 911
In addition to filing a civil stalking protection order in court, which was suggested by police, Klonda Richey, made 16 calls to 911 in the last year to report problems with her neighbor and his dogs. During a July 2, 2013 call, Richey told dispatchers, “I’ve made a lot of calls about this neighbor next door to me and his pit bull-mastiff ... I tried the civil protection order and I got brushed aside by those judges as a neighbor dispute. It’s gone way beyond a neighbor dispute,” Richey said.”
http://blog.dogsbite.org/2014/02/2014-dog-bite-fatality-pit-bulls-attack-strip-kill-dayton-woman.html
That’s a terrible crime, and I certainly think a terrible injustice to that woman.
I would have armed myself and started killing dogs long before having called the police 16 times. I consider a threatening dog to be an attacking dog. It is the only rational position to take.
Dogs trained to protect marijuana farm...
Who would have thought of that???
Used to live in that neighborhood. Domestic dogs getting out and forming small packs was a problem. Lots of weird people too.
Good. Pit Bull owners are scum.
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