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Mar 17, 2008 10:50 pm US/Pacific
San Francisco Fatal Dog Mauling Case Back In Court
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ―
The case of a woman whose dogs fatally mauled a neighbor in San Francisco is scheduled to be back in court.
The hearing in San Francisco Superior Court will center on which judge will get the case of Marjorie Knoller. The original judge in the case has retired.
Knoller was convicted of second-degree murder in 2002 after her Presa Canario escaped and killed her neighbor, Diane Whipple, but the judge reduced the conviction to manslaughter.
The California Supreme Court ruled last year that the judge used the wrong legal standard, and ordered the court to reinstate the murder conviction or order a new trial.
Knoller's husband, Robert Noel, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Both were paroled in 2004.
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