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Carolina Senate approves penalties for harming service dogs<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><BR><BR>Subject: [K9Scoop] North Carolina, USA: State Senate Approves Bill To
Increase Penalties For Harming Service Dogs.<BR><BR>Rocky Mount, North Carolina:
<BR>Senate Okays police and Service dog legislation<BR>By J. Eric
Eckard<BR>Rocky Mount Telegram<BR>Friday, March 30, 2007<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>The N.C. Senate
unanimously passed a bill a few weeks ago that would make killing a police dog
or an<BR>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.<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 his case had
gone to trial.<BR><BR>"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."<BR><BR>Henderson was accused of shooting and
killing Hicks' 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 laws, the state charges were dismissed, authorities
said.<BR><BR>That hasn't stopped N.C. Sen. A.B. Swindell, D-Nash, from pushing
the bill through the legislature.<BR><BR>"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."<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
assistance animals, too," he said. "I think people 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 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.<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 this article at:<BR><A
href="http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/local/content/news/stories/2007/03/31/newdoglaw.html">http://www.rockymou<WBR>nttelegram.<WBR>com/local/<WBR>content/news/<WBR>stories/2007/<WBR>03/31/newdoglaw.<WBR>html</A><BR><BR>[Non-text
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