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Los Angeles Physician Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Assaulting Bicyclists

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

The case against Thompson, 60, has drawn close scrutiny from bicycle riders around the country, many of whom viewed the outcome as a test of the justice system’s commitment to protecting cyclists.

Millington said he did not take into account more than 270 e-mails and letters from cyclists that were filed with the court urging a tough sentence.

The July 4, 2008, crash also highlighted simmering tensions between cyclists and residents along Mandeville Canyon Road, the winding five-mile residential street where the crash took place.

One cyclist was flung face-first into the rear window of Thompson’s red Infiniti, breaking his front teeth and nose and cutting his face. The other cyclist slammed into the sidewalk and suffered a separated shoulder.

At his sentencing hearing at the county’s airport branch court, Thompson cited the Bible in urging cyclists and residents of Mandeville Canyon to try to resolve their differences peacefully.

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Should dogsitter be criminally liable for dog’s attack?

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Recently, in a California case, the defendant’s dog bit the victim’s leg.  The jury convicted the defendant of assault by means of force likely to cause great bodily injury and the personal infliction of great bodily injury.

The California court held that the evidence supported the finding that the evidence supported the finding that one of the dogs obeyed the defendant’s command to attack and maul the victim.  The defendant knew that the dogs would attack on command, having been present during an earlier incident when the dog’s owner had instructed the dogs to attack a man. The dog’s also obeyed the defendant who cared for them.

When a neighbor told the defendant to stop the attack, the defendant refused to call off the dogs.  The California court held that the defendant directed the attacked and hindered its ending so that the defendant, not the dog, should and could be held responsible for personally inflicting great bodily injury.  People v. Frazier (2009)  173 Cal.App.4th 613.

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