[Cagdu] FW: North Carolina, USA: State Senate Approves Bill To Increase Penalties For Harming Service Dogs

Sat Mar 31 20:20:25 PDT 2007

Subject: North Carolina, USA: State Senate Approves Bill To Increase
Penalties For Harming Service Dogs

Rocky Mount, North Carolina: 
Senate OKs police dog legislation

By J. Eric Eckard
Rocky Mount Telegram

Friday, March 30, 2007

Rocky Mount police Cpl. Chris Hicks is at the center
of a bill that's passing through the N.C. General
Assembly, but he shuns the publicity.

The N.C. Senate unanimously passed a bill a few weeks
ago that would make killing a police dog or an
assistance animal, such as a Seeing Eye dog, a Class
H felony. At present, committing such a crime would be
considered a Class I felony.

If the N.C. House passes the same bill and the
governor signs it into law, anyone convicted of this
crime in the future would receive a harsher penalty
than 26-year-old Marcus Henderson would have faced if
his case had gone to trial.

"I see it as something positive but not just for me or
Danny, for all K-9 handlers in North Carolina," Hicks
said. "I think it's a positive change for everybody."

Henderson was accused of shooting and killing Hicks'
K-9 partner, Danny, during a shootout in July.

But because the U.S. attorney's office decided to
prosecute Henderson under federal weapons and drug
laws, the state charges were dismissed, authorities
said.

That hasn't stopped N.C. Sen. A.B. Swindell, D-Nash,
from pushing the bill through the legislature.

"We passed it in the Senate, and that's wonderful,"
Swindell, the bill's sponsor, said of the 47-0 vote on
March 14. "And I have not heard one peep of
opposition."

The bill now sits in the House, Swindell said, and he
expects it to pass there pretty quickly.

"I'm glad it had in there not only police animals, but
assistance animals, too," he said. "I think people
want this.

"Anyone who willfully (kills) a police animal or an
assistance animal shouldn't get just a slap on the
wrist."

The proposed law wouldn't guarantee prison time for
those convicted, but it doubles the punishment allowed
for those with extensive criminal backgrounds.
And the new law also would differentiate between
assaulting a police dog and killing one.

"We're halfway there," said Hicks, who now patrols
with a new dog, Chance. "And I don't see it as a
problem getting it passed."

Find this article at:
http://www.rockymou
<http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/local/content/news/stories/2007/03/31/new
doglaw.html>
nttelegram.com/local/content/news/stories/2007/03/31/newdoglaw.html

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