Charges dropped against woman who pulled faces at police dog
June 8, 2007 - 9:12AM
A US prosecutor dropped charges against a woman who was arrested for staring at and making faces at a police dog.
Jayna Hutchinson was about to go on trial this week on charges of cruelty to a police animal and resisting arrest, but the case was dropped on Tuesday.
"I think it was going to be difficult to prove her conduct changed the dog's behavior," Orange County State's Attorney Will Porter said. "Most of the time (in harassment cases) people would come tell the court what it felt like. Dogs can't do that."
Hutchinson, 33, of Lebanon, New Hampshire, was charged in July when police were called to a market to investigate a report of a brawl.
They were approached by Hutchinson, who said she had been assaulted the day before by one of the men involved and wanted to make a statement. Vermont State Police Sgt Todd Protzman told her she seemed drunk and he would take a statement from her later.
After a heated exchange, she approached Protzman's cruiser, where his dog, Max, was waiting. She put her face within centimetres of the window and stared at Max "in a taunting/harassing manner", Protzman wrote in an affidavit.
Officers arrested Hutchinson, adding a resisting arrest charge because she pulled away from them.
"Prosecuting a woman for 'staring' at a police dog is absurd," said her lawyer, public defender Kelly Green. "People are allowed to make faces at police dogs and officers to express their disapproval. It's constitutional expression."
Without the cruelty charge, jurors would be unlikely to convict her on the resisting arrest count, Porter said.
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Patient sheds green blood in emergency operation
June 8, 2007 - 10:18AM
Canadian doctors say an emergency operation in Vancouver has turned into a scene from the X-files when the patient started shedding green blood.
But tests show the 42-year-old man isn't a visiting alien, but was suffering from a rare blood condition.
Reporting in The Lancet medical journal doctors say the patient was being operated on for restricted blood flow in his lower legs after falling asleep in a sitting position.
But surgeons were startled by his dark greenish-black blood.
It's apparently been caused by sulphur in the patient's migraine medication being absorbed into his red blood cells.
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Cop shoots colleague in safety demo
From correspondents in London
The 1st of June, 2007 12:00
Article from: Agence France-Presse
A POLICE marksman accidentally shot a colleague - during a firearms safety lecture, British media reported today.
The wounded man was in a serious but stable condition in a hospital in Oxford, southern England, The Times said.
New control room operators for Thames Valley Police were being given a training lecture on how the force's firearms team operates by one of its officers, the Daily Mail said.
"For some reason, the gun he was using to demonstrate the weapons they use was loaded and as the group was listening intently, a shot rang out and one of them was shot in the stomach from fairly close range,'' a police source told the tabloid.
"There was a lot of blood as a result of the shooting and pandemonium broke out.''
The officer, who said he did not know the gun was loaded, has been suspended from the firearms unit, The Sun said.
"The question uppermost in everyone's mind is why on earth the gun was loaded when it was being used during a demonstration in a classroom,'' a police source told The Times.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission will investigate the incident.
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