Woman Arrested For Making Faces At Police Dog

[Christina Marie]

Jun 7, 2007 3:30 pm US/Mountain

Woman Arrested For Making Faces At Police Dog

(AP) CHELSEA, V.T. A prosecutor has dropped charges against a woman who was arrested for staring at and making faces at a police dog.

"Prosecuting a woman for `staring' at a police dog is absurd," said her lawyer. "People are allowed to make faces at police dogs and officers to express their disapproval. It's constitutional expression," said public defender Kelly Green, who represented Jayna Hutchinson.

Hutchinson, 33, of Lebanon, N.H., was charged with cruelty to a police animal and resisting arrest after a July 31 incident in West Fairlee in which police were called to a market to investigate a report of a brawl. They were approached by Hutchinson, who told one officer she had been assaulted the day before by one of the men involved.

She asked Vermont State Police Sgt. Todd Protzman to take her statement but he refused, telling her she smelled like alcohol and was drunk but that he would take her statement at another time.

After a heated exchange, she approached Protzman's cruiser, where his dog Max was waiting, putting her face within inches of the window and "staring at him in a taunting/harassing manner," Protzman wrote in an affidavit.

"While the defendant taunted my canine, Max was focused on the defendant and the perceived threat she presented to him," the affidavit said. "He was no longer focused on me and the other officers at the scene."

Officers arrested Hutchinson, adding the resisting arrest charge because she pulled her arms and upper body away during the arrest. She registered 0.21 percent blood-alcohol content on a breath test, more than twice the legal limit for drivers in Vermont.

On Tuesday, two days before Hutchinson was to go to trial, Orange County State's Attorney Will Porter decided to drop the charges, after viewing a videotape of the incident over the weekend.

"I think it was going to be difficult to prove her conduct changed the dog's behavior," Porter said. "Most of the time (in harassment cases) people would come tell the court what it felt like. Dogs can't do that."

Without the cruelty charge, jurors would be unlikely to convict her on the resisting arrest, Porter said.

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[LcBwC]

The things 1x try to pin on people. Damn its getting lower and lower.

[Christina Marie]

Its just soooo ridiculous, lol

[pistolslanga]

gyeah soon people gonna get arrested for not tying their shoes, or for wearing their pants too low, or maybe because they accidently stepped in precious dog poop.

fukk this shit

[Shox112]

In VEGAS supposedly its against the law to take picccles(or anything else) off a hamburger after u ordered it defacing a hamburger...Charging at a floccc of birds(disturbing nature), and spitting in public

[LcBwC]

Any state that you go to tho theres alot of ridiculous laws on the books. Look into it. Its funny. But its just the state trying to protect itself.

[A Ghost]

or for wearing their pants too low,

They outlawed that down south....

[pistolslanga]

or for wearing their pants too low,

They outlawed that down south....

ohhh america home of the brave and free!


my ass, load of BS.

[Sentenza]

In VEGAS supposedly its against the law to take picccles(or anything else) off a hamburger after u ordered it defacing a hamburger...Charging at a floccc of birds(disturbing nature), and spitting in public

LOL!!!

[Anesis]

or for wearing their pants too low,

They outlawed that down south....

ohhh america home of the brave and free!


my ass, load of BS.

I think that's why it illegal, actually.

Dumb Laws

[LcBwC]

These had me trippin. Why even waste time and money to pass these laws...

LBC
Cars are the only item allowed in a garage.
It is illegal to curse on a mini-golf course.

LA
It is illegal for a man to beat his wife with a strap wider than 2 inches without her consent.
You cannot bathe two babies in the same tub at the same time.
You may not hunt moths under a street light.
It is illegal to cry on the witness stand.
Toads may not be licked.
It is a crime for dogs to mate within 500 yards of a church.
Zoot suits are prohibited. ( i know this one has been on the books forever)

[Shox112]

These had me trippin. Why even waste time and money to pass these laws...

LBC
Cars are the only item allowed in a garage.
It is illegal to curse on a mini-golf course.

LA
It is illegal for a man to beat his wife with a strap wider than 2 inches without her consent.
You cannot bathe two babies in the same tub at the same time.
You may not hunt moths under a street light.
It is illegal to cry on the witness stand.
Toads may not be licked.
It is a crime for dogs to mate within 500 yards of a church.
Zoot suits are prohibited. ( i know this one has been on the books forever)

I guess dats how OJ got off he didnt beat her he stabbed her

[senseofhumorgirl_]

Christina Marie,

Girl, this avatar of yours speaks for what that all of that commotion over that woman making faces at a police dog was.

[senseofhumorgirl_]

Christina Marie,

Girl, that avatar of yours speaks for what that all of that commotion over that woman making faces at a police dog was.

[Christina Marie]

Christina Marie,

Girl, that avatar of yours speaks for what that all of that commotion over that woman making faces at a police dog was.

Ya it does, that avatar covers just about everything, lol

[LcBwC]

These had me trippin. Why even waste time and money to pass these laws...

LBC
Cars are the only item allowed in a garage.
It is illegal to curse on a mini-golf course.

LA
It is illegal for a man to beat his wife with a strap wider than 2 inches without her consent.
You cannot bathe two babies in the same tub at the same time.
You may not hunt moths under a street light.
It is illegal to cry on the witness stand.
Toads may not be licked.
It is a crime for dogs to mate within 500 yards of a church.
Zoot suits are prohibited. ( i know this one has been on the books forever)

Comedy.

I guess dats how OJ got off he didnt beat her he stabbed her