Here are cases we are following for January, 2008. Please attend!
1/4/08 9 am Williamsburg (Circuit Court)
Donald Hunt
animal cruelty
1/7/08 1 pm Grayson County (General District Court)
Loretta Shupe Parsons
failure to vaccinate for rabies, failure to purchase current
license tags, failure to care for animals
1/14/08 1 pm Wythe County (General District Court)
James Michael Taylor
animal cruelty
1/16/08 11 am Portsmouth (General District Court)
Merlin Lewis
animal cruelty
1/22/08 8:30 am Chesapeake (Circuit Court)
Alfred Taylor
animal cruelty - dogfighting
1/25/08 9:30 am Richmond (US District Court)
Oscar Allen
dogfighting (part of Vick case)
If you want information on these cases, we can send it to you.
If you plan to attend, consider letting the Commonwealth Attorney who is prosecuting the case know you will be there in support of the prosecution.
If you plan to attend, confirm the day before that the case will move forward at the time and date shown. Things often change at the last minute.
Have you asked your Commonwealth Attorney and Animal Control Officer about animal cruelty complaints in the last year in your county/city? Please do, and tell us what you learn.
Thanks.
Lillian Clancy and Don Marro