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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>Subject:</B> North Carolina, USA: State Senate
Approves Bill To Increase Penalties For Harming Service
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<P>Rocky Mount, North Carolina: <BR>Senate OKs police dog legislation<BR><BR>By
J. Eric Eckard<BR>Rocky Mount Telegram<BR><BR>Friday, March 30,
2007<BR><BR>Rocky Mount police Cpl. Chris Hicks is at the center<BR>of a bill
that's passing through the N.C. General<BR>Assembly, but he shuns the
publicity.<BR><BR>The N.C. Senate unanimously passed a bill a few weeks<BR>ago
that would make killing a police dog or an<BR>assistance animal, such as a
Seeing Eye dog, a Class<BR>H felony. At present, committing such a crime would
be<BR>considered a Class I felony.<BR><BR>If the N.C. House passes the same bill
and the<BR>governor signs it into law, anyone convicted of this<BR>crime in the
future would receive a harsher penalty<BR>than 26-year-old Marcus Henderson
would have faced if<BR>his case had gone to trial.<BR><BR>"I see it as something
positive but not just for me or<BR>Danny, for all K-9 handlers in North
Carolina," Hicks<BR>said. "I think it's a positive change for
everybody."<BR><BR>Henderson was accused of shooting and killing Hicks'<BR>K-9
partner, Danny, during a shootout in July.<BR><BR>But because the U.S.
attorney's office decided to<BR>prosecute Henderson under federal weapons and
drug<BR>laws, the state charges were dismissed, authorities<BR>said.<BR><BR>That
hasn't stopped N.C. Sen. A.B. Swindell, D-Nash,<BR>from pushing the bill through
the legislature.<BR><BR>"We passed it in the Senate, and that's
wonderful,"<BR>Swindell, the bill's sponsor, said of the 47-0 vote on<BR>March
14. "And I have not heard one peep of<BR>opposition."<BR><BR>The bill now sits
in the House, Swindell said, and he<BR>expects it to pass there pretty
quickly.<BR><BR>"I'm glad it had in there not only police animals,
but<BR>assistance animals, too," he said. "I think people<BR>want
this.<BR><BR>"Anyone who willfully (kills) a police animal or an<BR>assistance
animal shouldn't get just a slap on the<BR>wrist."<BR><BR>The proposed law
wouldn't guarantee prison time for<BR>those convicted, but it doubles the
punishment allowed<BR>for those with extensive criminal backgrounds.<BR>And the
new law also would differentiate between<BR>assaulting a police dog and killing
one.<BR><BR>"We're halfway there," said Hicks, who now patrols<BR>with a new
dog, Chance. "And I don't see it as a<BR>problem getting it passed."<BR><BR>Find
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