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RUMFORD — The fate of two dogs that dead addition dog and afflicted its buyer in Winslow now rests with the justices of the Maine Absolute Judicial Court.
["992"]Their owner, Danielle Jones, appealed a commune court’s adjustment to euthanize pit beasts Bentley and Kole. That adjustment followed a award that Jones had committed the civilian abuse of befitting alarming dogs afterwards the animals able from their fenced-in backyard and dead a 10-month-old Boston terrier.
Fergie Rose, a 10-month-old Boston terrier, was dead by two pit balderdash terriers that able from their backyard Aug. 30, 2016 on Lucille Artery in Winslow. Fergie Rose's owner, Sharron Carey, was blood-soaked in the attack. Contributed photo
The court, sitting as the Law Court, heard arguments Friday morning from Jones’ attorney, Richard Rosenthal, and from Kennebec County Assistant Commune Advocate Tracy DeVoll.
Rosenthal hopes the dogs can be spared. DeVoll said they accept accepted they are too alarming and the buyer cannot ascendancy them. She asked the cloister to assert the commune court’s afterlife order.
The Law Court, which captivated its affair at Mountain Valley Aerial School in Rumford, issues rulings after in writing.
A cardinal in this case will be amid the few apropos this civilian statute. Rosenthal acclaimed he had to accredit to cases from out of accompaniment in his abrupt because there are so few in Maine.
The justices on Friday appeared to accept the state’s position and said that Commune Cloister Judge Eric Walker, who presided at the two-day trial, took a considered, anxious access to the case and his account about why he autonomous for afterlife for the animals rather than bonds or muzzles.
The Law Court’s cardinal will adjudge the fate of the two dogs, which able from their backyard Aug. 30, 2016, on Lucille Artery to advance 10-month-old Fergie Rose, actuality absolved by buyer Sharron Carey.
Rosenthal maintained that this dangerous-dog case is quasi-criminal in attributes rather than artlessly civilian because it was “brought by police, prosecuted by the commune attorney’s appointment and it deals with a forfeiture.” He said Jones should accept had a board balloon at which the accompaniment would accept to prove “beyond a reasonable doubt” that the dogs were dangerous.
He additionally argued that it was cryptic which dog absolutely inflicted the baleful injuries to Fergie Rose.
["590"]Associate Justice Andrew Mead acclaimed that Rosenthal had characterized this as “a afterlife amends case for animals.”
Rosenthal additionally said that “euthanasia” is the amiss chat in this case.
“It is an execution,” he told the court.
Associate Justice Ellen Gorman told him that the Legislature acclimated the appellation “euthanasia.” She additionally told him that his arguments ability be accustomed able-bodied at the Legislature, but wondered about their abode at the appellate level.
Mead said the facts were bright and that the Legislature has bent it is a civilian statute that governs these types of cases.
“An alone was walking a baby dog bottomward the artery and admiring the absorption allegedly of a brace of ample pit balderdash terriers who somehow escape their enclosure, and as we see in the videotape, chase beyond the advanced backyard and proceeded to advance this little dog. This added alone best it up and they pulled it out of her accoutrements and inflicted injuries on the dog that eventually dead it and additionally afflicted the actuality walking the dog.”
He said one of the accessible outcomes of addition answerable as a babysitter of a alarming dog would be to adjustment the dog muzzled, aseptic or euthanized.
Associate Justice Jeffrey Hjelm said, “Even your applicant declared the way the two dogs Bently and Kole acted together. There’s affluence of affirmation actuality that both dogs were complex in this adequately barbarous attack.”
He additionally acclaimed that Rosenthal aloft a cardinal of issues in the address that were never aloft at balloon and asked how the Law Cloister could analysis them.
Rosenthal said they could be advised as apparent error.
["850"]Associate Justice Donald Alexander, who presided at the articulate altercation affair in the absence of Chief Justice Leigh Saufley, referred to a above-mentioned adventure in which the two dogs had afflicted addition dog. Alexander said the owners “have approved they’re afraid to accumulate their dogs bound up abroad from people.”
Alexander additionally referred to a abstracted dangerous-dog case in Waterville that was prosecuted by the Kennebec County Commune Attorney’s Office, in which a husky, Dakota, won a abatement from a afterlife order. Dakota additionally accustomed a absolution from the governor.
That case additionally ability accept headed to the accompaniment absolute cloister if a accommodation had not been reached. It additionally prompted questions about whether the governor’s ability of absolution continued to animals and about the adapted abuse for dogs accounted dangerous.
DeVoll said the afterlife adjustment should stand.
“This case is about protection,” DeVoll said. “It’s about attention bodies — men, women, children, babies — and their pets. It’s about attention them from the defendant’s two dangerous, baleful dogs.”
Mead asked her if there was a axiological aberration amid accepting a allotment of acreage forfeited, such as a baiter or motorcycle, and accepting a dog killed.
He again answered his own question.
“Dogs are associates of the family,” he said.
DeVoll said the animals are advised abnormally from acreage beneath the dangerous-dog statute back they are pets, but that these were ordered euthanized because they are too alarming to let live.
Jones and Brandon Ross, co-owners of the dogs, abounding the arguments in Rumford, sitting in the amphitheater abaft Rosenthal.
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The afterlife adjustment is on authority awaiting the appeal, and the animals are actuality kept at the Humane Society Waterville Area.
It did not arise that Sharron Carey was present for Friday’s articulate arguments.
Carey has filed a civilian accusation in Kennebec County Superior Cloister adjoin Jones, Ross and Danielle Doyon, of Waterville, buyer of the home at 12 Lucille St.
Carey, through advocate Steven Blackwell, said that she suffered injuries to her hands, in accurate to her larboard wrist, back the two dogs abject her to the arena while disturbing Fergie Rose from her arms.
Carey seeks advantage for her injuries and amercement as able-bodied as medical and veterinary expenses.
The affirmation is brought beneath accompaniment statutes, one of which permits “reimbursement for accident done by animals.”
Betty Adams — 621-5631
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Twitter: @betadams
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