By Bob Walsh
Marjorie Knoller, 61, was (maybe still is) a lawyer in the formerly great state of California. Fifteen years ago, in San Francisco, her 140 pound Presa Canario (big nasty dog), Bane, killed the coach of the St. Mary’s College women’s Lacrosse Team in front of her own apartment door. The female, Hera, may have joined in, that was unclear. The jury convicted her of second degree murder in the case and found her husband, a co-owner of the dogs, guilty of a lesser charge of
manslaughter. He did three years of a four year sentence. He was not personally present at the time of the attack.
Knoller filed a federal appeal, sniveling that the judge was mean to her lawyer and thereby denied her a fair trial. Her lawyer was a dick, among other things constantly interrupting and objecting during closing arguments.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals told her to pound sand, that the errors did not amount to the level of a constitutional violation. She is, as far as I know, still doing her 15-life sentence.
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