.......the rest of the quote......Under the state's Health and Safety Code, a dog is considered dangerous when it causes bodily injury to a person in an unprovoked attack and causes a person to believe that it will attack and cause bodily injury.
I'd say this man had legitimate reason to believe that the dog intended to cause him bodily harm.
LOL that's not what I was getting at, the specific case, which is DUH! I was getting at the GENERAL application of the law. Except apparently it DOES say "AND...", so maybe 1 DOES have to prove both the dog already attacked AND you feel threatened....
If it were just what I quoted - we all know how bad people's "perceptions" can be. Even what people SAW is often flawed in criminal cases, much less how they feel!