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B2B Publishing. Business Visionaries. Hot Property. Times Events. Times Store. Facebook Twitter Show more sharing options Share Close extra sharing options. In this Feb. California commissioners on Thursday denied parole for the former San Francisco attorney serving a life sentence in the dog-mauling case.

By Associated Press. From the archives: Marjorie Knoller, the dog attack and the importance of being human » Advertisement. Mary's College in Moraga, bled to death from at least 77 wounds. Knoller, 53, was paroled from prison in after serving about three years for involuntary manslaughter, but was returned to custody Aug. Knoller's husband, who was not home when the attack happened, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and paroled in September Knoller testified at her trial that she did everything she could to save her neighbor.

Woolard, however, concluded that she made only "minimal efforts" at intervention and "left Ms. Whipple in the hallway to die alone. She also said Knoller lied repeatedly in grand jury and trial testimony, has never expressed remorse and "blamed the victim" in an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America" 13 days after the attack. In that interview, which prosecutors played for the trial jury, Knoller said Whipple had ample opportunity to get back into her apartment and save herself. Monday's minute hearing included a statement from Whipple's partner, Sharon Smith , who looked at Knoller and declared that more than seven years after "the worst day of my life and the last day of Diane's life, finally there is some justice.

Knoller "valued her dogs over the lives of her fellow human beings," Deputy District Attorney Allison Macbeth told the judge. She compared the dogs to "loaded assault weapons" and said Knoller had allowed them to roam through her Pacific Heights apartment building with little restraint.

Knoller, wearing orange jail clothing, looked straight ahead throughout the hearing and did not speak before being led away by guards. Schneider, whom the couple adopted as their son three days after the attack, was a member of the white supremacist Aryan Brotherhood prison gang and was planning a guard dog business to be called "Dog-O-War.

A California appeals court in upheld the second-degree murder conviction ruling that Knoller "deliberately engaged in behavior that was a danger to human life" when she took her two powerful Presa Canario dogs into the hallway. Though Knoller was convicted of second-degree murder in a trial, the original trial judge, Superior Court Judge James Warren , granted a new trial on the grounds that it wasn't clear that she knew her conduct was likely to result in death.

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