diane whipple
Marjorie Knoller was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for second-degree murder, for indifference to the fate of Diane Whipple, who was mauled to death by Knoller’s dogs in a San Francisco apartment hallway in 2001. [1]
In January 2001, two dogs killed Diane Whipple of San Francisco as she tried to enter her apartment. [...] They rather were the start of its appellate phase, focusing upon the circumstances under which a dog owner should be found guilty of murder when her dog kills a person. [...] In September 2008, the trial court handed down the most severe sentence, 15 years to life in prison. [2]
Now a superior court has reinstated the murder conviction, and the attorney may have fled to Israel. [...] The owners were convicted of second degree murder, a sympathetic Judge overturned the verdict, and they served two yrs. [3]
The dogs, whose name means catch or prey dog of the Canary Islands, were owned by neighbors, Marjorie Knoller and her husband Robert Noel, both attorneys. [...] The dogs involved were two Presa Canario /mastiff mixes named Bane (male) and Hera (female), owned by neighbors living in the same apartment building. [4]
In the year that followed, shocking details emerged about the case, and criminal charges ranging all the way to murder were filed against the owners of the dogs, Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel. [2]
A state lawyer asked the California Supreme Court Tuesday to reinstate a second-degree murder conviction for a San Francisco woman whose dogs fatally mauled a neighbor six years ago. [3]
Woolard said Knoller had not bothered to put a muzzle on her aggressive 140-pound Presa Canario dog before taking it out of the apartment. [1]
In May 2005, based on its understanding of implied malice to require defendant’s subjective appreciation and conscious disregard of a likely risk of causing serious bodily injury to another, the Court of Appeal reversed the trial court’s call for a new trial on the second degree murder count, and Knoller appealed to the California Supreme Court. [4]
From the first horrifying account in January 2001, the death of Diane Whipple — killed by ferocious dogs outside her upscale San Francisco apartment — was riveting national news. [5]
In February 2007, he was disbarred by the California State Bar, meaning that he lost his license to practice law in that state. [2]
3/21/02: Judge James Warren reads the jury’s verdict; Marjorie Knoller reacts to murder verdict. [5]
Sources:
[1] Shakesville: Finally Justice for Diane Whipple
[2] Dog Bite Law: Diane Whipple Case
[3] The Diane Whipple Murder
[4] Diane Whipple - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[5] The Death of Diane Whipple