{"id":27778,"date":"2014-10-03T22:02:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T14:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=27778"},"modified":"2014-10-03T18:55:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T10:55:10","slug":"pit-bull-owner-faces-stiff-sentence-in-mauling-death-of-california-woman-during-morning-stroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/03\/pit-bull-owner-faces-stiff-sentence-in-mauling-death-of-california-woman-during-morning-stroll\/","title":{"rendered":"Pit bull owner faces stiff sentence in mauling death of California woman during morning stroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_140556172.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27779\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_140556172.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_140556172\" width=\"1000\" height=\"787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_140556172.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_140556172-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_140556172-900x708.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES\u2014A pit bull owner whose dogs fatally mauled a woman walking near his house faces a sentence of up to life in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Donald Jackson goes before a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge Friday after his second-degree murder conviction.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors are seeking 24 years to life in prison for last year\u2019s killing of Pamela Devitt in the high desert town of Littlerock and other drug-related convictions.<\/p>\n<p>Devitt was taking a morning stroll when four of Jackson\u2019s dogs leaped over a fence and attacked her.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say the dogs guarded Jackson\u2019s marijuana-growing operation and he knew the animals were dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>A murder conviction in a dog mauling death is rare. Prosecutors say Jackson should have done more to restrain the animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES\u2014A pit bull owner whose dogs fatally mauled a woman walking near his house faces a sentence of up &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":27779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-w","mauthors-brian-melley","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}