For years I was in shock. Whipple had made it known that she didnt like the dog and felt that Bane was dangerous. It was also revealed during the trial that Knoller never thought to call 911. However that was impossible. 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The defense sharply disputed allegations that Knoller abandoned Whipple in the hallway after the attack. I felt that these dogs had a potential of being very serious [risks], he testified. Robert Noel, who was not present during the attack, was convicted of manslaughter. In 2000, Knoller and Noel "obtained their two Presa Canarios, named Bane and Hera, through their relationship with a pair of Pelican Bay State Prison inmates, Paul 'Cornfed' Schneider (whom they had legally adopted as their son), and Dale Bretches, both members of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang." I wanted to let Marjorie know. Knoller claims she didnt learn he was dead until three months later. In San Francisco, St. Marys College lacrosse coach Diane Whipple, 33, was fatally mauled on January 26 by two leashed Presa Cararios with a reported combined weight of 233 pounds. Once inside the courtroom, he retrieved the soup ladle from his rectum and attacked a defense attorney, Philip Cozens. [21], Knoller appealed the appellate court decision to the Supreme Court of California. Whipple's partner, Sharon Smith, also succeeded in suing Knoller and Noel for $1,500,000 in civil damages. He had a hard-on that big. Coumbs also told the jury that after the dog-breeding scheme started to fall apart, Knoller called her to threaten that Coumbs would lose her land and car unless she gave up the dogs. Their neighbors, in fact, were terrified of them. One of the most famous Presa Canario attack cases caused the tragic death of Diane Whipple in 2001. Hera was eventually put down. Then, a short moment later, Birkmaier heard a bang at her front door. Not to mention, one of the prosecutors on it was Kimberly Guilfoyle, who now spends her time on TV defending white supremacists like her boyfriends father, President Trump. In the fall of that year, defendants brought a male Presa Canario named Bane to their home. Chmielewski, Dawn C. "Testimony Is Challenged - The Prosecutor Disputes Details from Marjorie Knoller, Saying She has Been Inconsistent in Her Accounts in Court and to the S.F. [32][33][34], On February 7, 2019, California commissioners denied Knoller's first application for parole. The letters refer to two apparent attacks by Bane -- the Presa Canario blamed largely for Whipple's death -- on a blind woman and her guide dog between June and January. One neighbor told the Chronicle that she bought pepper spray to protect herself. Around 4 p.m., five days before her 34th birthday, Diane Whipple arrived home from grocery shopping. Noel and Knoller said they got the dogs from one of the gang members, a Pelican Bay State Prison inmate named Paul "Cornfed" Schneider, whom they had represented and legally adopted as their son. Knoller has said Hera had no part in the attack. Before Martin testified, Coumbs blamed the dogs' behavior on Paul "Cornfed" Schneider, the Pelican Bay inmate who was having the animals raised. "Fatal San Francisco dog maul case back in spotlight". There, in the hallway outside her apartment, she was attacked by a massive Presa Canario named Bane. Police will not discuss other evidence, but their search warrant said they were after material describing sexual acts by Noel or Knoller that involved dogs., While he was locked-up awaiting trial (Knoller and Noel were both charged with manslaughter and keeping a mischievous animal, with another charge of second-degree murder for Knoller), Noel told a reporter from Rolling Stone all about how impressed he was with the hellhounds enormous dick, Bane was confident, proud, handsome. The couple had a history of disregarding leash laws and allowing their dogs to roam free in the building, causing concern and fear among . [21] The Supreme Court held that the trial court's standard for implied malice murder (which required a high probability of death) was too strict and the appellate court's standard (which required only serious bodily injury rather than a danger to human life) was too broad. [21], After Knoller's and Noel's convictions in 2002, the State Bar of California suspended their law licenses. Bane is a Perro de Presa Canario, also known as the Canary Mastiff, and possibly one of the most loyal dogs you'll ever meet. "Every piece of clothing was taken off of her by these dogs.". Show More Posts from . [39] She donated some of the money to Saint Mary's College of California to fund the women's lacrosse team. (Or, as one SFPD officer put it, The attorneys had to know these animals were vicious. Another neighbor called 911 after hearing Whipple's screams. At that trial, Sharon Smith, who was Diane Whipples partner, said that she felt justice had finally been granted. "Dog Owner Seeks to Overturn Conviction in 2001 Mauling Death", "Dog-maul case figure paroled / Robert Noel released early from prison". The stud dog that Schneider first purchased to start his dog-breeding business was a. named Bane. "[15], At trial, Knoller argued that she had attempted to defend Whipple during the attack. In May 2005, the state appellate court reversed the judge's grant of new second-degree murder trial for Knoller. She was killed in a dog attack in San Francisco on January 26, 2001. Bane and Hera's owner, Marjorie Knoller, was convicted of second degree murder (a landmark judgment at the time) and is currently serving a prison sentence of 15 years to life. Diane Whipple, a lacrosse teacher at St. Mary's College, was killed Jan. 26, 2001 in a dog attack in San Francisco. The two animals, 120-pound Bane and 113-pound Hera, attacked and killed the couple's neighbor Diane Whipple on Jan. 26 in a hallway outside her apartment. She faces a minimum of 15 years to life in prison if she is convicted. When Whipples partner Smith took the stand, still reeling with shock, Ruiz grilled her on her knowledge of the dogs behavior. Ruiz also asked first responders if theyd spent too much time chasing down the dogs and not enough time helping Whipple, suggesting their actions prevented her from receiving life-saving care. Those traits made them powerful attack dogs which allegedly drew the attention of Paul Cornfed Schneider, a 38-year-old member of the Aryan Brotherhood serving a life sentence at Pelican Bay for a long list of felonies. Smith also sued the couple for damages in a civil suit. Fifteen minutes later, though, Bane was clear-eyed and unaffected. They allegedly expected to find customers among the Mexican Mafia. She became a two-time All-American lacrosse player in high school, and later at Penn State. Much of my life became unrecognizable.. The only way authorities were able to determine how exactly Schneider managed to sneak his shiv into court was one ominous clue: The defense attorneys stab wounds were infected with feces. He would be the top dog. The daughter of working-class San Francisco parents, shed attended UC Davis for undergrad and the University of San Francisco for her law degree. As, , just after she called 911 for the second time, The barking stopped, the growling stopped and then there was silence., Eventually, the animal control officers collared the dog with two poles and dragged him outside the apartment building and put him down for good with 25cc of. Kelly S. Jaime on January 16, 2001 died just inside the door of her apartment in Saginaw, Mich-igan, after an attack by two Presa Canarios allegedly owned by relatives who lived downstairs. Id rather not go through it, but if we have to go through it, Im confident well be vindicated and we will make them sorry they ever went down that path.. Officers entered Knoller and Noels apartment to deal with the deadly dogs. Along with lead prosecutor James Hammer, Guilfoyle showed in court that Knoller and Noel were criminally responsible for their dogs behavior, recounting how the dogs, in their few short months with Knoller and Noel, had. Along with lead prosecutor James Hammer, Guilfoyle showed in court that Knoller and Noel were criminally responsible for their dogs behavior, recounting how the dogs, in their few short months with Knoller and Noel, had attacked 30 people in all. The trial kicked off with photographs of Whipples grisly injuries, some so disturbing that her loved ones left the courtroom. Robert Noel, of killer-dog case fame, to get out of prison. Fuck you!. Reels. Parole may begin today in dog-maul case. Robert Noel (L) and his wife Marjorie Knoller (R) wait to present their case in a vicious dog trial that will determine the fate of their dog Hera February 13, 2001 in San Francisco, CA. "She cut her fingers trying to beat back Bane's head as he was biting her and as he was ripping Ms. Whipple's clothing off.". Whipples blood was splattered on the walls of the hallway; it soaked into the carpet in pools. But Knoller and Noel werent done fighting the laws whether civil or natural. It helps them. When Coumbs transferred the dogs to Knoller and Noel she warned them about the dogs bloodlust. Their case went through a series of appeals, primarily fighting Knollers second-degree murder charge, but her final appeal was quashed in 2016. But Knoller and Noel werent done fighting the laws whether civil or natural. Theres no way to measure the full impact of that loss, Smith said. "They even gave this operation, this kennel, a name," Hammer told the jury. Bob might have sent one of these to Paul. assigned Assistant D.A. Noel said Bane had his share of run-ins with other dogs one of which ended in Noel having his right index finger almost severed, wrote Suzanne Herel of the San Francisco Chronicle. But after the San Francisco Animal Control officers put down their children, the couple wanted to replace the lost dogs with a human child or, well, a full-grown adult. The manual was said to have been inscribed by Dale Bretches, 44, cellmate of Paul Cornfed Schneider, 38, at Pelican Bay State Prison. She was a lacrosse star and narrowly missed qualifying for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics in the 800-meter. On August 23, 2010, the First District Court of Appeal unanimously upheld Knoller's conviction, finding that she acted with a conscious disregard for human life when her Presa Canario escaped and killed Whipple. They had two Presa Canarios, a rare breed that originated in the Canary Islands. Still, the judge stunned legal observers when Knoller was found guilty of second-degree murder and sentenced to 15 years to life for what authorities referred to as the first death-by-dog in the history of San Francisco. Whipple was born in Princeton, New Jersey. Bane, Hera, and six other Presa Canarios were bought for Bretches and Schneider by intermediary Brenda Storey, police say, and then were raised by Janet Coumbs, 49, of Hayfork, Calif-ornia. At the time, the young legal star was dazzling the local press with her media savvy, camera-ready personality and relationship with then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. As gay marriage was still illegal in California at the time, the defense argued Smith had no standing to even file such a lawsuit. "I just had this feeling that maybe Ms. Knoller was not aware, that maybe she was a little naive about the dogs. Hes our kid, and we love him. She later added that as far as the porn she sent to Schneider, Its a tradition to write erotic letters to inmates. At the time of her death, Whipple lived in San Francisco's Pacific Heights with her domestic partner of six years, Sharon Smith. Schneider insisted that the dogs not be socialized, she said. The dog-mauling murder of Diane Whipple began with a shit-stained soup ladle that was hidden in the ass of an incarcerated white supremacist named Cornfed Schneider. Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel had adopted Bane and Hera from a prison inmate who was training them as guard dogs. According to the New York Times, The bloodbath in the hallway was so horrific that police officers at the scene had to receive trauma counseling., Paul Cornfed Schneider was born in 1962 and raised by a strict retired-military stepfather. Coumbs [also] complained that the dogs had eaten her chickens, her sheep, and her daughters cat.Knoller and Noel sued Coumbs for Schneider, and took custody of the dogs in early 2000. [21] The appellate court returned the case to the lower court to reconsider Knoller's motion for a new trial using the serious bodily injury standard for implied malice murder. Knoller emerged from her apartment. Three years later, in 1990, when Schneider was brought to court to testify as a witness in another inmates case, is when he stabbed Cozens with a soup ladle he pulled from his rectum. However, she did not compete at the 1996 Olympic Team Trials. Then, in 2003. for arranging the murder of a sheriffs deputy. The Presa Canario a/k/a Perro de Presa Canario is a very powerful dog breed.The name means "Canary Dog." But. Which he did. , Bane was confident, proud, handsome. "Her trachea was crushed and pierced by the dogs' teeth," he said. 2nd-Degree Murder, Manslaughter Among Charges Husband, Wife Face. They sent a 19-page letter to San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinanaccusing Whipple of bringing death on herself. This site is currently under construction. Katie Dowd is the SFGATE managing editor. Many legal experts agreed; as far as anyone knew, no same-sex partner had ever successfully sued for damages in the wrongful death of a partner. 148) Bane was male and Hera female; by January 2001, "Bane weighed 140 pounds and Hera close to 100 pounds. [11], Just prior to the attack, Knoller was taking the dogs up to the roof;[8] Bane, and possibly Hera Hera's role in the mauling has never been firmly established attacked Whipple in the hallway. [9], The two married in 1989. The massive dogs were Presa Canarios, a rare and. ", Knoller wrote back a couple of weeks later, saying, "I will pass the information on to my client. The chaotic and tearful trial catapulted Guilfoyle to national fame, as news broadcasts carried nightly coverage of the days proceedings. Do you consider that if you had made a complaint that Diane Whipple might be alive today?Ruiz asked, prompting audible gasps from the gallery. Whipple and Smith. The male Presa Canario, Bane, apparently inflicted the fatal bite on Whipple, while the female, Hera, tore at her clothing. [9][10], The dogs' owner, Paul Schneider, was a high-ranking member of the prison gang the Aryan Brotherhood who was serving a life sentence in Pelican Bay State Prison. The victim, aged just 33, was mauled by two Presa Canarios inside her apartment building in San Francisco. San Francisco police lieutenant Henry Hunter told reporters on February 16 that the police intend to recommend that felony charges as serious as involuntary manslaughter be brought against Knoller, who is an attorney, and her husband and law partner, Robert Noel, 59. of her life sentence, which presumably ends her legal fight, and guarantees that shell serve out her time for the heinous death of Diane Whipple. Please e-mail. Theyre massive animals bred by Spaniards as work dogs who herd bulls. [10][16][15] Ultimately, the jury found both Noel and Knoller guilty of involuntary manslaughter and owning a mischievous animal that caused the death of a human being, and found Knoller guilty of second-degree murder. Knoller picks new attorney for appeal. And all he did was talk about how big Banes balls were., pictures mentioned in the police search warrant, Knoller denied them. Murder conviction reinstated in S.F. I wasn't a BeyHive member. Hes our kid, and we love him. She later added that as far as the porn she sent to Schneider, Its a tradition to write erotic letters to inmates. "I just felt Hera was a dog I couldn't be sure about.". Meanwhile, emergency responders rushed Whipple to the hospital, where she later died from a heart seizure. Animal control officer Vicky Guldbach read aloud a letter from veterinarian Donald B. Martin to Knoller and Noel, warning them that Bane and Hera would be a liability in any household.Noel had trouble with at least one other dog, reported Herela greyhound he once owned who nipped at some children. Bane and Hera, who were eventually euthanized, were crossbred Presa Canarios. But unlike sheepdogs, Presa Canarios prefer to run up to a bull and bite its lip or ear and then drag the bull to the ground by its face. Coumbs said Bane could get high enough to lick her in the face. Bane weighed close to 130 pounds; Whipple weighed just 110. Then, a short moment later, Birkmaier heard a bang at her front door. It was Schneider himself. ': A magical hike's dark side. San Francisco Animal Care and Control euthanized Bane. He said he would show at least 30 instances in which Bane and Hera attacked other people, including an incident in which one dog severed Noel's finger. It took the jury members just 11 hours to return their verdict: Noel and Knoller were guilty of all charges. The California Supreme Court declined to hear her appeal of that decision. Not to mention, one of the prosecutors on it was. Whipple had moved in with companion Sharon Smith only one month earlier. "Why jury called it murder. Meanwhile, Noel was similarly found guilty and sentenced to three years for involuntary manslaughter. By 2016, increasing health problems led to his living out of a van for some time before he relocated to the San Diego area.[34]. They were a married couple who worked as lawyers, and their bizarre personal lives would soon burst into the public. The stud dog that Schneider first purchased to start his dog-breeding business was a Presa Canario named Bane. They were Presa Canarios, a brindled Spanish mastiff mostly bred as guard or attack dogs. Freezing temps that fall into the 20s may soon hit parts of Bay Area, 'Lady in the fridge' murder victim identified as Bay Area mother of 3, Snow shuts down over 70 miles of I-80;Donner Summit 'dangerous'. In his opening statement to the jury, prosecutor James Hammer offered a detailed description of the massive injuries Whipple suffered. Couple Goes to Jury Today. Dog Mauling. don't let the dainty name fool you. Knoller and Noel had only had the dogs for three months. In any case, Knoller said, she opened her apartment door, trying to get Bane inside, when Hera, the couple's other Presa Canario, stuck her head out and started barking, agitating Bane. The dogs involved were two Presa Canarios: a male named Bane and a female named Hera. Although the killing of Whipple is the only known human death attributed to Presa Canarios, the case is drawing attention from authorities concerned about an increasing number of attacks by ferocious dogs. All of her clothing had been shredded by the dogs. He helped former Washington Post reporter Lou Cannon on "Official Negligence," a book about the LAPD, the King case and the riots. A medical examiner would later say the only parts of Whipples body that were spared were the top of her head and the soles of her feet.. I have never written a letter like this I just felt so convinced that the potential was so great. In 2015, Knoller was once again back before a judge hoping to appeal her conviction. He bought himself a new motorcycle with his stolen loot. All nine counts were dismissed in 1997. [9] Noel graduated from the University of Baltimore Law School in 1967. Still, the judge stunned legal observers when, Knoller was found guilty of second-degree murder, for what authorities referred to as the first death-by-dog in the history of San Francisco. Although the judge granted a new trial for the second degree murder charge, he sentenced Knoller to four years in prison for the lesser-included involuntary manslaughter on July 15, 2002. Those neighbors were Robert Noel, 59, and Knoller, 45. Meanwhile, emergency responders rushed Whipple to the hospital, where she later died from a heart seizure. Bane and Hera, the two Presa Canarios that killed Whipple, remained in custody of Marjorie Knoller, and her husband and fellow attorney Robert Noel, in their apartment right across the hall from Whipple, despite at least 30 complaints about their behavior. Schneider arranged from solitary confinement for Coumbs to hand over Bane and Hera to Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel, 46 and 60, respectively, at the time of the dog-mauling case. "The evidence will show that she tried to stop Ms. Whipple's bleeding," Ruiz said, "and that the only reason she got up off of Ms. Whipple was to make sure that Bane didn't hurt her more. Bane, she said, loved a kitten named "Chewy Chewbacca" and never menaced anyone. She called 911 again. Smith asked that he not be released to San Francisco, a request that was granted by the Department of Corrections. Dog Attack Case Back To The Trial Court Using The Correct Test For Implied Malice. He had a hard-on that big. The judge told Smith she didnt have to answer, and Smith did not. After Coumbs fell out of favor with Schneider,[10] attorneys Noel and Knoller agreed to take possession of the dogs. But in the months that Bane was on her farm, he killed whatever animals he could including, like I mentioned, her beloved housecat. Whether they had actually trained the dogs to attack and fight remained unclear. There was nothing, However, in a letter to Schneider, Knoller did once brag that Bane was her . The parole board determined Knoller remains a threat to society and will remain incarcerated. A pretrial profile on Guilfoyle that ran in Chronicle said the 32-year-old favors librarian glasses and wants people to know that she is not some cupcake.. Marjorie Knoller weeps as her attorney describes the events of the death of Diane Whipple, who died Jan. 26, 2001, from wounds caused by Knoller's dogs. The defendants were able to convince a judge that the trial should be moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles because of the publicity the mauling has generated, but failed to win separate trials. The dogs escaped her control and attacked Whipple. That is, they, adopted their violent, white supremacist client, But this was just the beginning of the weirdness to come out about their relationship. The adoption became official on January 29. Schneider was eventually transferred to the maximum security facility, Pelican Bay State Prison. (The name has a darkness all its own: In Old English, killer, slayer, murderer, worker of death; in early Germanic, it means wound; and in Old Norse, it means death or that which causes death.), Coumbs lived with her teenage daughter in. SAGINAW, Michigan; SAN FRANCISCOParallel fatal attacks in late January moved the Presa Canario, or bull mastiff, to the top of the list of suspected inherently dangerous dog breeds. Nearly 20 years later, the case continues to make headlines. Ruiz tried to counter the prosecution's arguments by getting on the floor and re-enacting the attack from the defense's point of view. Coumbs lived with her teenage daughter in Hayfork, a small town in rural Northern California. There simply wasnt enough blood in her body to keep her heart beating. She said that she told Knoller and Noel when they came to pick up the dogs that Hera and another dog named Fury "should never be taken off my property.". ", Prosecutor: Victim Was Bitten From Head to Toe. At 11 oclock, youll know where he is.. ", Last edited on 22 February 2023, at 01:27, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, "Officials Working To Build Case In Fatal Dog Attack", "Yesterday's Crimes: Dog Mauling in the Eye of a Media Storm", "Justice for Sharon: the dog-mauling trial ended with guilty verdicts, but for Sharon Smith, partner to the woman killed, another legal battle is about to begin", "Man convicted in SF's infamous dog mauling case dies". "[11], On January 26, 2001, while returning home with bags of groceries, Whipple was attacked by the two dogs in the hallway of her apartment building. ", "Marjorie Knoller tried to save that woman's life with her own body," Ruiz said. Bane, the dog that has killed a woman in San Francisco is anything except a Perro de Presa Canario. In a letter to Schneider, Noel had written about the encounter: As soon as the [elevator] door opens at six, one of our newer female neighbors, a timorous little mousy blond who weighs less than Hera, is met by the dynamic duo exiting and almost had a coronary., Hera was the couples other dog, also a Presa Canario and also trained to protect Mexican meth labs. As the trial of Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel got under way today, defense attorney Nedra Ruiz said in her opening statement that Knoller did her best to prevent bloodshed when at least one of her two dogs lunged at a neighbor, Diane Whipple. Meanwhile, Noel was similarly found guilty and sentenced to three years for involuntary manslaughter. Knoller's two dogs, named Bane and Hera, attacked Whipple in the hallway of her San Francisco apartment building while returning home with bags of groceries. "The potential (for injury) was too great.". "But evidence will not show that Marjorie [Knoller] stood back and let that terrible thing happen to that beautiful girl. What was worse, he said, was that the other dogs appeared to be following Bane's example. A single mother, she and her daughter Daisy squeaked by with her disability check and what income they could pull out of a small farm where they raised lambs. There was something strong and dark about this animal. Another neighbor claimed that birds would start flying crazily when Bane and Hera walked by.. However, after being paroled, during Knollers probation hearing in 2008, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Charlotte Woolard opted to reinstate the jurys original verdict of 15 years to life. Feb. 19, 2002 -- Prosecutors today portrayed the owners of the dogs who mauled a San Francisco woman to death last year as dog breeders who ignored their animals' deadly potential while the defense told jurors that one defendant risked her life trying to save the victim from her pets. 64 following. A Project of Animal People, Inc., 1992-2013. Diane Alexis Whipple (January 31, 1967 January 26, 2001)[2] was an American lacrosse player and college coach. The killing of Diane Whipple remains one of the most emotional and indelible crimes in modern San Francisco history. , a small town in rural Northern California. Schneider had underworld connections and was using associates on the outside to handle the buying, rearing and selling of the dogs, the official said. Noel died of heart failure on June 22, 2018, in a La Jolla nursing home. Paul has an inner life he shares with us, she told Rolling Stone. 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