A jogger is mauled to death by a pit bull, and detectives discover that the dog's original owner may have tortured it and trained it to be a killer.A jogger is mauled to death by a pit bull, and detectives discover that the dog's original owner may have tortured it and trained it to be a killer.A jogger is mauled to death by a pit bull, and detectives discover that the dog's original owner may have tortured it and trained it to be a killer.
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- TriviaThis episode appears to be based on the Dana Whipple case. Whipple was a California college lacrosse coach who was mauled to death by two Presa Canarios in the hallway of her apartment building in San Francisco on January 2001. The dogs had been given to her neighbors, Marjorie Knoller and her husband Robert Noel, both attorneys, by the dog's owners, who were in jail at the time. Knoller failed to restrain her dogs when they attacked Whipple. Noel was not present during the attack. After a long legal battle, Knoller was sentenced to serve 15 years to life for the death of Diane Whipple. In addition to the criminal charges, Whipple's partner, Sharon Smith, also succeeded in suing Knoller and Noel for $1,500,000 in civil damages.
- GoofsThe veterinarian testifies the dog is an American Pit Bull. The full name is American Pit Bull Terrier.
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Narrator: [opening narration] On September 11th, 2001, New York City was ruthlessly and criminally attacked. While no tribute can ever heal the pain of that day, the producers of "Law & Order" dedicate this season to the victims and their families, and to the fire fighters and police officers, who remind us with their lives and courage what it truly means to be an American.
- ConnectionsReferences Cujo (1983)
No one would say David Warshofsky was working out any rehabilitation when it is discovered he's got a business breeding fighting dogs for sport. That's illegal in a few different ways and it came to the attention of law enforcement when one of the dogs got loose and viciously mauled a woman to death in Central Park.
Running the ring in lieu of Warshofsky on the outside is his attorney Melissa Leo and her husband Bruce McCarty who is a CPA. They're the ones arrested and charged and who Sam Waterston and his new 2nd chair will prosecute.
They may live on Riverside Drive. But these two are a real pair of bottom feeders.
The only one who gets no justice is the poor pit bull, tortured in life and sentenced to die.
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- Jul 12, 2018