Judge takes bite out of judgment in dog-killing case

David Shonk, a local organic farmer and owner of 12-Mile Market on Fairview Drive, was convicted Thursday, Jan. 27, of animal abuse after he admitted to trapping, shooting and burying a neighbor’s dog in August. In a non-jury trial in Multnomah County Circuit Judge Karin Immergut’s ...

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Source: Portland Tribune

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