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Mauling trial jurors explain verdicts



“From our point of view, her testimony was not believable,” said Don Newton, 64, foreman of the seven-man, five-woman panel that convicted Knoller and her husband Thursday in the death of Diane Whipple, 33.
And amen! I'll admit right off that I don't like dogs all that much. They're tolerable when they belong to someone else, but I am definitely not a dog person. (Though they seem to like me, especially the huge ones, like Rotts. Strange. Sorta like a cat rubbing up against the one person in the room that absolutely despises cats.)



Apparently their case was not helped by letters written to the dogs' owner...who is in state prison, and whose mail is subject to review before delivery, and thus were entered as evidence in the trial.



Two weeks before the attack, Noel wrote about an incident in which the dogs frightened Whipple as she entered the building’s elevator. In the letter, Noel referred to Whipple as a “timorous little mousy blond.”



After the attack, he wrote another letter bemoaning the death of Bane and vowing to fight for the life of Hera. “Neighbors be damned,” he wrote. “If they don’t like living in the building with her, they can move.”
Now there is a compassionate soul. His dogs kill a woman and it's here fault, "Let my dogs live!" Is there any greater example of how out of whack things are in the world today?

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