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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Justice Bites Back | 4/1/2002 | See Source »

...gunmen outside a church; in Cali. Working from the birthplace of Colombia's most powerful cocaine cartels, Cancino was outspoken in his fights against violence, 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

...shelters won't kill them if they're at all adoptable. But that Friday Diane Whipple, 33, a lacrosse coach, stepped out of the elevator in her tony Pacific Heights apartment building with her shopping bags. She was set upon by Bane and Hera, 123-lb. and 112-lb. Presa Canarios belonging to the two attorneys down the hall. By the time the police arrived and rushed her to the hospital, she was mortally wounded. Officers who saw the grisly scene needed trauma counseling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror on a Leash | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...Haring, '07, who came to Harvard from Yale two years ago to teach Latin American history; Professor F. W. C. Lieder '07, of the German department; Professor Andre Morize, Dr. K. B. Murdock, '16, whose book on Increase Mather is shortly to be published by the University Presa; Professor C. R. Post, '04, recently exchange professor to Princeton; and Professor F. N. Robinson, '09, former chairman of the department of English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TUTORS APPOINTED FOR HISTORY AND LITERATURE | 10/8/1924 | See Source »

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