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  • Murder term again a possibility for woman in S.F. dog-mauling death {Marjorie Knoller}

    05/31/2007 12:32:45 PM PDT · by SmithL · 24 replies · 1,181+ views
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 5/31/7 | Bob Egelko
    SAN FRANCISCO -- The woman convicted in the 2001 dog-mauling death of a neighbor in their San Francisco apartment building could once again face a murder sentence because of a state Supreme Court ruling today. In a unanimous decision, the court said a trial judge had used an overly lenient standard when he reduced a jury's second-degree murder conviction to involuntary manslaughter for Marjorie Knoller in the January 2001 death of Diane Whipple. But the justices also said an appellate court used criteria that were too harsh when it reinstated Knoller's murder conviction in 2005. The court ordered a new...