A judge has sentenced a dog owner to 15 years to life in prison, seven years after her canines fatally mauled her neighbour in an upscale San Francisco neighbourhood.
A judge had reduced a jury's conviction of second-degree murder to involuntary manslaughter and Marjorie Knoller was sentenced in 2002 to four years in prison. But the California Supreme Court last year ordered the second-degree murder conviction reinstated.
She was sentenced on that conviction today.
Knoller's lawyers plan to appeal.
The conviction stemmed from the 2001 death of Dianne Whipple.
She was attacked by Knoller's two Presa Canarios in a hallway of their apartment building.
Each dog weighed more than 45 kilograms and inflicted at least 77 wounds.
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