Woman whose dogs mauled neighbor gets 15 to life

[tannybogus]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A judge has sentenced a dog owner to 15 years to life in prison, seven years after her canines fatally mauled her neighbor in an upscale San Francisco neighborhood.
A judge had reduced a jury's conviction of second-degree murder to involuntary manslaughter and Marjorie Knoller was sentenced in 2002 to four years in prison.

But the California Supreme Court last year ordered the second-degree murder conviction reinstated. She was sentenced on that conviction Monday. Knoller's lawyers plan to appeal.

The conviction stemmed from the 2001 death of Dianne Whipple. She was attacked by Knoller's two Presa Canarios in a hallway of their apartment building. Each dog weighed more than 100 pounds and inflicted at least 77 wounds.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D93BTVM80&show_article=1

I wasn't even sure where this case was. That was a HORRIBLE story. Hope she loses on appeal.

[CreekDog]

1. I think what she did was horrible. She was totally negligent about those dogs.

incredible.

[Berry Cool]

2. I remember that story.

It amazes me that it has taken this long for conviction and sentencing. I was horrified reading about it.

[tannybogus]

3. That incident made the police squeamish.

Just reading about it gave me the heebie jeebies. I still get chills thinking about how awful it had to have been.:scared:

[BoneDaddy]

4. When you own weapons

you are responsible for them

[applegrove]

5. That was awful. How could you own dogs like that? I bet her conviction has

kept not a few dangerous dog owners from being negligent owners. Lives have been saved.

[avaistheone1]

6. Lock her up and throw away the key.

Knoller must be a psychopath to do what she did with those dogs.

[Bombero1956]

7. if I remember correctly

She tried to blame the victim by claiming that "Ms. Whipple may have been wearing a pheromone based cosmetic or scent or...as a serious athlete, she may have been a user of steroids," which could have triggered Bane's interest".

[mulsh]

8. she & her hubby never once exhibited any human emotions.

apart from the size and type of dogs they owned and kept in their apartment neither she or her husband ever once appeared contrite or the least bit concerned or sorry for this woman's death. Even for attorneys these two both reached the dept of inhumane behavior. I'm glad she is getting a much stiffer sentence and hope her husband can get something similar. I don't feel safe with people like this in the general public.

Diane Whipple coached at my father's alma mater. I went to St. Mary's College High School. From all I've heard from people who worked with her and those who knew her she was a wonderful very much missed person.