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    Dog on death row in Albany


    4-year-old blue lacy, named Blue, has been in the Linn County Dog Control facility since Sept. 12, 2010 on death row as his owner fights a legal battle with the city of Albany

    A 4-year-old blue lacy, named Blue, has been on death row in Albany for nine months as his owner battles the city. As the lawsuit drags through the court system, Blue has gained hundreds of supporters who are now trying to change the city’s dangerous dog law.

    Blue has been in a cage at the Linn County Dog Control shelter since Sept. 12, 2010.

    Albany’s Police Chief deemed him to be a dangerous dog after he bit a toddler who got in his food bowl while he was eating. Under current Albany city code, a dangerous dog gets the death penalty.

    Blue’s owner, Richard Raymond, hired attorney Paul Meadowbrook to fight the death sentence and challenge the city’s ruling that Blue is dangerous. Meadowbrook said Blue was 24 hours away from being euthanized earlier this year when he got a court order to stop the process, appealing the municipal courts decision that Blue is a danger.

    Meadowbrook said he is waiting for the city of Albany to produce court records from the original hearing so they can continue the writ of review process.

    Blue’s owner said he does want the dog back, but also offered the solution of sending Blue back to his original owner, Raymond’s ex-wife, in Texas. Raymond’s girlfriend said they are willing to move out of the county and city to get Blue back.

    Over the last few months, Blue has gained hundreds of supporters. Albany resident Charlene Morrison is part of a group who started a petition to change the city of Albany’s ordinance on dangerous dogs.

    Morrison said, "We need to get the ordinance rewritten; a police officer is not qualified to make that decision and certainly the city is not, that decision needs to be made by a professional."

    Morrison said a veterinarian should be required to determine whether a dog is dangerous, and can or cannot be rehabilitated.

    Dr. Arlene Brooks has been a vet for 20 years and has examined Blue several times. "You don’t mess with a dog while he is eating and in Blue’s situation he had the toddler get in the bowl with him while he was eating and he did cause injury to toddler."

    Brooks said it is an unfortunate event that should not have happened, but there should have been parental supervision.

    City council member Dick Olsen said he is one of the three Albany city council members who wants Blue to get a second chance.

    Olsen said there are four council members who think Blue is dangerous and should die, but Olsen said he has been working on an amendment to the dog ordinance. "The way it works now you either give dog back to owner scot-free, or you kill the dog. I would like to see a middle area."

    On May 13, 2010, the city allowed Brooks and Blue’s family to visit him at the Linn County shelter and take him out running on a leash. Brooks said it was the first time the dog has been allowed to run in 8 months.

    Blue’s family said it’s only the second time they have been allowed to see him since he was locked up last Sept.

    Supporters have gathered 1300 signatures on a petition that they plan to present to the Albany City Council Wednesday night. They plan to ask for a "city pardon" for Blue.

    Albany resident Cherie Holverson said, "This dog needs our help, if we don’t do something he is going to be killed."

    City attorney Jim Delapoer said the city can’t ignore the law. Gerald Warren is acting city attorney on the case. He said that he and Blue’s attorney have reached an agreement to move Blue from the Linn County shelter into the Albany Pet Hotel where he can live in a more humane facility for the duration of the legal proceedings.

    As of Monday afternoon, Blue was still at the Linn County Dog Control.

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    Kentucky prison inmates to train dogs for wounded veterans

    Wounded soldiers will now be paired with trained dogs as a result of a unique partnership and program that is being launched at Green River Correctional Complex (GRCC). GRCC has operated a dog rescue program since 2004; all but one Kentucky prison now has a program. The Green River program is called “Death Row Dogs” and is a partnership with Jack’s Place Animal Rescue.

    Through this partnership, classes of 20 dogs are each paired with an individual inmate trainer for a 12-week training program. During this period the dogs and inmates work with a certified dog trainer and each animal must pass the AKC Canine Good Citizen certification. The goal is to make the dog more eligible and desirable for adoption. Upon completion of the current class, a total of 564 dogs will have graduated from the program.

    A few months ago Warden Randy White, a decorated Army National Guard veteran, extended a challenge to staff involved with the prison’s dog program to try and foster a possible link that would pair some of the Death Row Dog animals with wounded soldiers in a therapeutic venue.

    They found that link in Army Sergeant Debra Lamere, who is currently assigned to the Warrior Transition Unit at Ft. Campbell. Sgt. Lamere is a member of the 101st Airborne, an Afghanistan veteran, and previously became associated with the prison’s dog program by adopting one of the dogs. Sgt. Lamere launched the “Dogs2Vets Program.”
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    The first graduation of dogs to complete the 12-week training course under the new partnership is scheduled for Wednesday, June 15th at 1 p.m. (CST). At this time, six veterans will be on hand to receive their dog and the families of two deployed veterans will accept the dog on behalf of their loved one. The dogs then begin specialized training, dependent on the Warrior’s specific needs, at the facility at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

    Several dignitaries are also expected to attend the event and the media is invited.

    For more information on programs and initiatives to assist and honor Kentucky’s service men and women, visit Gov. Beshear's 11-11-11 initiative to honor Kentucky veterans and men and women in uniform.

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    Another Dog on Death Row



    First there was a campaign to "Save Luna." Now a new campaign is underway to spare another Connecticut dog from death row.

    Buddy, a golden retriever from Milford that was sentenced to be put down after biting a person, will have his day in court, The Connecticut Post reports. A hearing is set for Tuesday to determine if Buddy should be killed or allowed to go to an out-of-state kenne.

    Here's what started the whole thing.

    In October, Buddy got into a fight with another dog. When a person tried to intervene, Buddy bit that person. He was impounded, has remained so ever since, and was ordered to be killed by Milford Animal Control.

    Since then, Buddy's owner, Victoria Stillings, has been appealing that decision.

    "Buddy is a good dog and a great pet and I want him to live," she told the Post.

    A compromise will be discussed at the hearing that would save Buddy, sending him to a handler trained to re-acclimate dogs to people and other animals. Stillings has agreed to the compromise.

    "It breaks my heart, but I don't want him to be killed," she told the Post. "I got him out of the pound in Westport seven years ago and someone will adopt him from the pound again."

    Buddy's owner is not alone in trying to save him from doggy death row. The Lexus Project is also in his corner.

    The Lexus Project, you'll recall, helped save Luna, the Tolland dog who killed some neighborhood chickens. A Facebook page has also been created called "Save Buddy From the Milford Dog Pound."

    http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/l...128378628.html

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    Do death row dogs get a lavish last meal too?

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    Milford’s Buddy the dog getting new ‘leash’ on life in Florida

    Buddy, an 11-year-old golden retriever, has gone from death row to a Taj Mahal in less than a week.

    And it’s about to get even better. Buddy, like a lot of New Englanders, is soon headed to Florida to retire. How did this happen? One only needs to ask The Lexus Project, and its organizers Robin Mittasch and Richard Bruce Rosenthal, a New York lawyer.

    The Lexus Project spent $2,000 to file numerous court motions to save Buddy from being euthanized earlier this month. Two weeks ago, the Lexus Project and city attorneys agreed to a deal that set Buddy free. Buddy knocked down a woman as she tried to get between her dog and Buddy, who were in a tangle last year. Buddy was accused of instigating, and animal control officers ordered his disposal.

    Owner Victoria Stillings of Milford recently turned over legal guardianship to Rosenthal and the Lexus Group. Buddy lived at the animal shelter for the past 11 months, until Rosenthal and Mittasch picked him up last week.

    “He was in great shape,” Mittasch said. “He can lose a few pounds, but can’t we all?”

    Buddy had lived in a crate. She said Buddy has been transported to the National Greyhound Association Program in Philadelphia at the request of the foundation’s owner.

    “It’s a magnificent facility,” Mittasch said. “It’s like the Taj Mahal. It has couches and beds.”

    She said Buddy is undergoing a physical and receiving dental work before being transported to a Florida breeder.

    According to the negotiated agreement, which Superior Court Judge Richard Arnold oversaw, Buddy will have a radio frequency identity chip implanted, and Rosenthal paid the city $715 for the dog’s daily lodging.

    Rosenthal had to make sure Buddy was on a leash and wearing a muzzle until he was out of state. Rosenthal was also prohibited from making any stops until he was out of Connecticut.

    The agreement mandates Rosenthal has 20 days from the time of Buddy’s release in Milford to get the dog to Florida. Buddy is prohibited from coming back to Connecticut, and the city of Milford is forever protected from any liability if Buddy were to attack someone again.

    Mittasch said none of the conditions imposed by the court were problematic.

    “Buddy was wonderful,” Mittasch said. “He was a great passenger. He’s a very large lap dog. Buddy’s very loving and friendly. Everyone loves Buddy. This is a good dog.”

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    Pitbull Lennox's plight followed throughout the world


    Belfast City Council confirmed Lennox is currently at a secret location

    The story of Belfast’s death row dog has gone around the world. When the courts here first ordered that six-year-old Lennox was to be destroyed, the pitbull emerged as an icon for tens of thousands of dog lovers.

    They don’t view him as a dangerous dog, but an adorable and innocent family pet who has been subjected to a witch-hunt. Caroline Barnes brought Lennox into her north Belfast home when he was just a puppy.

    The family say he is the best friend of Caroline’s disabled daughter Brooke (12) and “soul mate” to Juicy the boxer. Lennox’s death row story began on May 19, 2010. It was noted that Lennox was acting aggressively when Belfast City Council dog wardens called at the Barnes home in Disraeli Court for a routine check regarding an expired licence.

    Senior dog warden Alexandra Lightfoot suspected Lennox was a dangerous breed and tried to measure him, without success.

    She claimed the dog was “bouncing on all fours” and hit her in the face with his muzzled jaw, sending her crashing to the ground. Lennox was then taken to council kennels.

    Immediately, Caroline Barnes set up the website savelennox.co.uk which attracted worldwide attention with respondents from across Europe, the US and Australia.

    Some 44,470 have shown support for the Save Lennox Facebook page and a staggering 106,217 signed the Save And Release Lennox petition, for the attention of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland. This emotive case took a sinister turn when threatening letters, drenched in petrol, were sent to two female dog wardens’ homes.

    Following abusive emails, windows at Yolanda Elwood’s home were smashed, her car tyres were slashed and her son was also subjected to abuse.

    Under the Dangerous Dogs (NI) Order 1991, pitbull terrier-type dogs are banned.

    While it has never been recorded that Lennox has ever bitten anyone, experts concluded he was, indeed, from the banned breed and it was decided that he should be destroyed.

    Ms Barnes, a former veterinary nurse, broke down in court back in March, saying she felt she had betrayed her daughter by failing to save their family dog from being put down. Brooke (12), who suffers from chronic asthma, wrote a letter to Belfast City Council asking it to save her best friend.

    At a hearing at Belfast Magistrates Court on March 29, District Judge Ken Nixon ignored the family’s desperate pleas to release the dog.

    He ruled that the dog’s “total unpredictability” made it a danger to the general public under the Dangerous Dogs (NI) Order, leaving Ms Barnes and her family heartbroken.

    The Barnes family say that Lennox, who has been DNA registered, neutered, licensed, micro-chipped and insured, is an American bull cross, and is being put to death simply for the way he looks.

    Their petition pleaded: ‘If this was a human we would declare this racism.

    ‘We ask every kind hearted person for your support, don't let them murder him.’

    The family launched an appeal and in court last week it was revealed that Lennox was on an anti-depressant called amitriptyline, following a “kennel stress” issue where the majority of his coat hair fell out.

    Dog warden Alexandra Lightfoot said anxiety medication had “mellowed” Lennox but added that he remained “a danger to the public and anyone around him”.

    Ms Lightfoot said that from the thousands of dogs she has encountered in her 25-year career as a warden, Lennox was “probably the most unpredictable and aggressive” of her four-legged clients.

    Sarah Fisher, a dog behaviour expert, gave evidence in the dog’s defence, but Peter Tallack, a retired dog handler who had been with the Met Police for 26 years, described the dog as “a problem waiting to happen”.

    Belfast City Council confirmed Lennox is currently at a secret location, to protect council staff and ensure activists don’t try to abduct him.

    Yesterday, at the final day of the appeal case at Belfast County Court District, Judge Henry Rodgers decided not to spare Lennox.

    The conclusion of this 16-month affair is that Lennox does pose a danger to the public and he is a ‘menace to society’ rather than ‘man’s best friend’.

    Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/ne...#ixzz1ZYE5gZqX

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    Efforts to ‘Save Lennox’ fail - Pit bull lookalike to be put down

    Lennox, the “death row dog” from Belfast, is “at the end of his line” despite last-ditch appeals by his owners. The dog, who was removed from its family in 2010, has made international news and received outpourings of support to protect it from being put to sleep.

    The Belfast Telegraph reports that the original owners of Lennox, the Barnes family of Belfast, have been working hard to prevent their beloved pet from being destroyed. In September of last year, a court ruled that the dog was dangerous and would need to be put down.

    The Barnes family, however, maintains that their pet is not a threat and has never hurt anyone. Further, the family maintains that Lennox is not a banned Pit bull breed, but is rather an American bulldog cross.

    County Court Judge Henry Rodgers refused an application for a last-ditch appeal last week because he believes that Caroline Barnes, Lennox’s owner, along with her legal team, “had not established a point of law on which to make one.”

    Caroline Barnes has worked relentlessly to spread the story about Lennox through the ‘Save Lennox’ campaign in the hopes of receiving support for the ill-fated dog, especially after it was ruled by a Belfast judge in September that the dog would have to be destroyed. Lennox has since made news around the world, and a petition to save the dog’s life has garnered over 123,000 signatures.

    Lennox has been separated from Caroline Barnes and Barnes’ 12-year-old disabled daughter, Brooke, for 610 days now, says The Belfast Telegraph. The dog was originally removed from the Barnes’ care in 2010 when, while muzzled, it knocked a dog warden to the ground and hit the warden’s face.

    The Lord Chief Justice Office of Northern Ireland spokeswoman said: "After considering the application by Ms Barnes and representations by Belfast City Council, Judge Rodgers on January 13, 2012 notified the parties that he had refused to state a case for the Court of Appeal."

    Caroline Barnes has 14 days to appeal to the Court of the Appeal about the County Court Judge refusing to state a case about her dog.

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    Pit bull on 'death row' released



    Leash and muzzle in tow, Snoopy the pit bull is finally free, he walked out of Halifax Humane Society and into the arms of this owner Bob Johnson Friday afternoon.

    "Get him back in the truck and get him back home," Johnson said as he picked up the pooch.

    After a brief exchange of pats, licks and barks, it was obvious Snoopy was anxious to get into Johnson's truck, and the two already have plans for the weekend.

    "Tonight we'll be watching TV, he'll be in his recliner and I'll be in mine," Johnson said.

    The road to this reunion with man's best friend came with help from more than 20,000 supporters who were outraged when Deltona officials took Snoopy away from Johnson when he got into a fight with another dog -- because he was labeled dangerous in 2007, he could have been put down, but those supporters weren't going to let that happen.

    "Everyone fell in love with Snoopy, and my dad, and I'm just glad that they're reunited, and thanks to everyone for their support, I don't know how to thank 24,000 people but we thank you," said Tish Kennedy, Johnson's daughter.

    Supporters even threatened to protest -- and March outside city hall, but after several discussions between lawyers, Johnson signed off on Snoopy's release.

    Now that Snoopy's back home and released from the Halifax Humane Society, Bob Johnson says he's not letting Snoopy out of his sight any time soon.

    "He won't be walking anymore on the street, he'll be walking in the backyard maybe but that's it, unless I put him in the truck and take him somewhere maybe," Johnson said.

    "We're just so excited, and I'm just so glad to have snoopy back with his dad, and that's really what this was about was, making things right," Kennedy said.

    Johnson must make sure Snoopy's muzzled when outside, and is up to date on his shots, he also has to have posted signs on his property, warning residents of the dog.

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    Miami-Dade County expected to repeal pitbull ban

    MAX, a young and handsome American pit bull, sits on death row in Miami-Dade County's Animal Services, a victim of possibly the world’s toughest breed-specific dog laws.

    The paperwork on his cage labels him "aggressive", but it’s more out of caution. He’s never bitten anyone.

    Max has got 24 hours for a reprieve. His owner is a soldier on duty in Afghanistan who left the dog with his family. They became panicked that they would be fined for harbouring an outlawed breed and handed him to the Animal Services pound.

    Miami-Dade County - which takes in the greater Miami city area - totally banned American pit bulls, Staffordshire terriers and Staffordshire bull terriers in 1989, after a seven-year-old girl was badly savaged.

    But the laws have not worked.

    With Australian states in various stages of having passed or considering laws severely restricting dogs by breed, Miami-Dade’s Head of Enforcement at Animal Services, Kathy Labrada, concedes the dangerous breed ban has been a failure.

    "No, it has not been effective," Ms Labrada says. "To target a specific breed I don’t think is logical. Any dog can bite.

    "Some of the nicest dogs I’ve ever met have been pit bulls. Certainly, the bites can be more severe but the bites could be avoided if owners were responsible. The solution is not to ban a specific breed. It’s not the dog’s fault."

    Miami-Dade is the only county in Florida with a specific breed law but the state legislature is expected to repeal it within a matter of weeks. This will end two decades of pit bulls being sent into exile over county lines or living in the shadows within the county.

    "If you have a pit bull in Miami, you have to walk it at 5am or midnight, and always looking over your shoulder,” says Dahlia Canes, who heads the Miami Coalition Against Breed Specific Legislation.

    Ms Canes and her allies in the pro—pit bull network have heard some wildly exaggerated stories of what one described as "a bloodbath Down Under", whereby animal officers in all states are engaging in a wholesale slaughtering pit bulls.

    The strongest Australian laws are in Victoria, following the death last year of four—year—old Ayen Chol, where any dog classified as a restricted breed can be destroyed if it is not registered.

    But those laws are nowhere near as tough of those in Denver, Colorado, or Miami-Dade, or where the breeds are outright banned.

    Officers visually assess the breeds by ticking off characteristics on a form. Owners are issued $500 fines and given 48 hours to destroy the dogs, or they’ll do it for you.

    "If you’re lucky, you get the body bag back," says Ms Canes.

    Ms Canes and her coalition have a surprisingly healthy relationship with the county’s sympathetic Animal Services officers, who alert her when they capture a pit bull and allow her total access to their facility.

    As Ms Labrada explains, they don’t like the enacting the law "but as long as it’s on the books in we are obliged to enforce it".

    One of Ms Canes key weapons has been to argue that a lot of the dogs they have seized are not in fact pit bulls, but similar looking dogs such as mastiffs or terrier mixes.

    Still, she estimates 800 pit-bull mixes or wrongly identified pit bulls were destroyed in Miami—Dade last year.

    Ledy Vankavage, lawyer for "Best Friends", an animal advocacy service, says: "The problem is, what is a pit bull? The animal controllers are wrong in 75 per cent of the cases. They use visual ID. It’s akin to racial profiling.

    "The trend in Europe and the US is to repeal these laws, whereas Australia seems for some bizarre reason to be going opposite way.

    "We believe responsible owners should be able to own any dog they choose, and reckless owners should be prevented from owning any dogs whatsoever."

    As far as Ms Labrada is concerned, there’s a long list of big dogs that are capable of doing as much damage as a pit bull yet are not on the banned list.

    She hopes the Florida legislators strike the law down. "If the ban is repealed, it would be beneficial to the county," she says.

    While it is often impossible to pick a pit bull by sight, there’s no doubt about Max.

    He’s pit bull through and through. The law’s repeal will not come in time for him. His only hope is that a saviour from across county lines comes and throws him a rope.

    http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/new...-1226258707062

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    Lennox Factions Feud, Efforts For Freedom Continue

    As Lennox, an American bulldog/Labrador mix, sits in seclusion on death row in a kennel in an undisclosed location somewhere in Northern Ireland, an innocent victim of breed specific legislation, the Facebook campaign to free him has turned confrontational and acerbic.

    A handful of two-faced bigots who have claimed in the past to be supporters now seem to have the sole goal of trashing Lennox’s family.

    They also apparently seek to draw attention to themselves like a circus sideshow and attempt to divide the loyal, steadfast and earnest supporters, to place the focus on themselves rather than on the campaign to free the dog that has been condemned to die because of how he looks.

    A feud has essentially erupted on Facebook pages between a group of Lennox supporters over 2,400 strong and a group of trolls numbering 19, some with fake profiles, who have again targeted the disabled daughter of Lennox’s owners with hateful vitriol and allegations.

    Other supporters of Lennox, the disabled girl’s support and companion dog, have initiated a petition, asking the Olympic Committee to not allow the Olympic Flame to pass through the city ofBelfastin June 2012 “unless Belfast freesLennox and returns him to his family”.

    The petition states “For almost two years the dog Lennox has sat on death row, in isolation. This dog has committed no crime, but is incarcerated all because of the way he looks and what he “might” do.

    Over 6,000 people have already signed the petition. http://www.change.org/petitions/free...ch-for-belfast

    Over 125,000 people worldwide have signed a petition demanding the release of Lennox. www.savelennoxpetition.co.uk

    Dog wardens seized Lennox from his home in May 2010, under the pretext of the highly controversial and discriminatory Dangerous Dog Act. The dog has been ordered euthanized by the Belfast City Council. The BCC paid an unqualified “expert” to say that Lennox MIGHT be dangerous and a threat to public safety because like all dogs, he has teeth and MIGHT bite someone someday.

    Since the death penalty was upheld by an appeals court in a decision Sept. 30, allegations have surfaced accusing one dog warden of giving perjured testimony at trial which would, on its face, seem to suffice as grounds for a mistrial and an order to free Lennox.

    Several months ago, several blogs reported that the dog warden had allegedly been involved in using fake Facebook profiles and accounts to leak court documents and clips of evidence videos that were originally unsigned by the court for release to the public.

    Such is highly improper conduct by government witnesses in an ongoing legal proceeding and could be criminally actionable. It’s also a violation of Facebook policy.

    Informed sources say the documents and videos began appearing on Facebook about the time of the September appeal, posted from the fake accounts seemingly in an attempt to negatively portrayLennox, his family, their supporters and those involved in his legal campaign.

    Insensitive, hurtful comments were also allegedly posted by some of the warden’s supporters regarding the disabled daughter of Lennox’s owners, spurred on by the fake profilers.

    Sources say a group of people on Facebook had setup an Anti-Lennox/Barnes family page in the guise of Discussions about the Dangerous Dogs Act. Individuals who used profiles of John Ferguson, Susie Simpson, Kate Trotman, Jake Longden, Terry Twoons and Sadie Shaw were the instigators of trying to turn public support away from supporting this case, sources said.

    These were allegedly fake profiles, some of which have now resurfaced.

    Those hate inciting pages were removed from Facebook but now, as Belfast County Court Judge Derek Rodgers has dismissed a petition by Lennox’s legal team, asking that the judgment be set aside due to legal errors and an new appeal opened, the same trolls have resurfaced, opening a new page of Facebook hate.

    Earlier this month, following a three month wait since the legal brief was filed in mid-October, instead of another judge reviewing Rodgers Sept. 30 decision upholding the euthanization order, Rodgers reviewed the matter and not surprisingly, upheld himself, ruling that no legal errors had occurred.

    Meanwhile, the administrators for the Save Lennox Facebook page, which is claimed to be the only “official” news of the plight of Lennox, have denounced essentially any press coverage of the case with one administrator dictating that the family should be able to control the press and what is being written about the case.

    A Save Lennox administrator tartly told one supporter “while it’s nice to know you are supporting Lennox, I do think any press should be done through his family only. It’s their story to tell to the media”.

    In other words, the family wants to control what the public knows about the case.

    The family has targeted Belfast Telegraph reporter Amanda Poole who reported last month that Rodgers had denied the last pleadings filed by the Barnes family in October in an attempt to save Lennox. She reported that the legal team for the family had until Jan. 26 to make another filing.

    The family quickly denied that any decision had been made even though Poole quoted a spokeswoman for the Lord Chief Justice Office of Northern Ireland who had said “After considering the application by Ms Barnes and representations by Belfast City Council, Judge Rodgers on January 13, 2012 notified the parties that he had refused to state a case for the Court of Appeal.”

    For days, Lennox supporters claimed thatPoole’s report was not factual and that they had not received any notification of any decision.

    But then on Jan. 23, days before the deadline stated by Poole, the Save Lennox campaign made a statement claiming that they had not been aware of the decision until Poole’s article, apparently claiming that the court had not provided them with a copy of the decision.

    The family members refuse to speak with the press, instead making all their statements via Facebook or on their website at www.savelennox.co.uk

    “On January 13th 2012 Judge Rodgers updated his verdict and upheld his original ruling that innocent family petLennoxmust be put to death due to how he looks. Although Judge Rodgers reportedly made all parties aware of his latest decision on January 13th the family ofLennoxhowever were not made aware of this latest decision until it had been published in a local newspaper which included a shocking and very hurtful title by the reporter.

    “Judge Rodgers who reviewed his own previous verdict which included a death sentence passed down to innocent Lennox in September 2011 came about his recent decision claiming Lennox’s legal team did not establish any adequate point of law within his previous handling of the case.

    “Many supporters have since cried out in anger questioning the courts as to why a Judge who passes a death sentence can review his own original judgment as it is pretty obvious the same judge would find he had made no mistake by not exercising all options put before him which included moving Lennox outside of the UK, nonetheless these questioning calls seem to have fallen on deaf ears as it seems perfectly normal for a Northern Ireland county court judge to review his own case. Another appeal has been submitted byLennox’s legal team in response to Judge Rodgers Jan 13th ruling”.

    In theU.S., within a certain time frame after a judge has rendered a decision in a matter, motion to reconsider and/or renew can be made to the same judge, pointing out various errors of law or findings based on erroneous facts. That judge then has 60 days to issue a decision on the motion. It is rare that the judge will reverse himself.

    Peter Tallack, the man paid by the Belfast City Council to cause the death of Lennox, has said outside of the Lennox case that “A well-bred and well-socialized pit bull terrier with a responsible owner who understands the breed is no more likely to be a danger to the public that any normal domestic breed of dog”.

    But yet when he testified against Lennox, his testimony bought and paid for by the BCC, he intentionally testified differently. http://www.northcountrygazette.org/2...ctory_tallack/

    Tallack recently appeared onNorthern Ireland’s BBC Radio Ulster and appears now on a quest to condemn all Staffies.

    To hear Tallack, simply skip/forward the player to 1:15:55 which is the start of Tallack and discussion at this link http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...ck_24_01_2012/

    It’s unknown when a ruling will be made—or who will make it— on the latest filing by the Barnes family.

    Meanwhile, Lennox remains locked away for over 20 months.

    http://www.northcountrygazette.org/2...factions_feud/

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