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Following a full month of sound and fury, justice arrived last week with a silent plea. At the end of a case marked by sensational testimony and courtroom theatrics, verdicts were handed down in the trial of Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel, a couple whose huge Presa Canario dogs brutally killed a neighbor in the hallway of their San Francisco apartment building last year. According to a witness, Diane Whipple, 33, had screamed for aid as she fought the beasts. Both Noel and Knoller sat stone-faced in court as each was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and keeping...
Knoller and Noel's arrogance before and after the attack hurt their case. The couple had blatantly disregarded previous aggressive behavior by their dogs, says jury foreman Don Newton, and Knoller's testimony on her behalf didn't hold up to scrutiny. "Everything she said was suspect," Newton told Time, adding there was never serious dissent among any of the jurors during the 11 1/2 hours of deliberations. "We had a unanimous verdict throughout all of it. The mischievous-animal charge was a no-brainer, then we decided involuntary manslaughter, and then there was some discussion of second-degree murder...
While Ruiz's comments about gays' lobbying about the case were dismissed by many activists as a desperate, last-gasp ploy, there is no question that the homosexual community has been deeply affected by the case. Smith is suing Noel, Knoller and their apartment-building owner in civil court, marking the first time in the U.S. that a same-sex partner has won the right to pursue a wrongful death claim over his or her mate. "The California statute was amended to expressly say domestic partners can sue, and that was, in part, due to Sharon Smith's testimony before...
...drugs and poverty. CONVICTED. MARJORIE KNOLLER, 46, on five charges, including second-degree murder and manslaughter, for not stopping her two, 54-kg Presa Canario dogs from attacking and killing 33-year-old Diane Whipple outside the victim's San Francisco home; in Los Angeles. Knoller's husband, Robert Noel, was also found guilty on lesser charges. The couple were taking care of the two dogs for a prison inmate who ran a breeding ring of attack dogs...
...estate worth nearly $3 million. Under Kansas law it should simply be split evenly among his spouse and heirs. But a private eye hired by Marshall's estranged son Joseph to investigate the stepmother he hardly knew uncovered something surprising: before surgeries in 1994 and 1995, J'Noel was known as Jay Noel, a man. Joe Gardiner sued for control of the entire estate, claiming that the marriage was same-sex and illegal. J'Noel says their marriage was "more loving than any relationship I have ever experienced or seen," and argued in a case heard by the Kansas Supreme...