Local News in Brief : Bid for Outtakes Rejected
A Los Angeles Municipal judge on Wednesday turned down a request by defense lawyers to view film shot by KCBS-TV before and after a pit bull attack on an animal control officer but which was not broadcast.
Bruce M. Margolin, attorney for the dog’s owner, Edlyn Joy Hauser, 37, said he was dismayed by Judge Candace D. Cooper’s ruling, which denied him access to the “outtakes” of the June 22 incident outside Hauser’s Glassell Park duplex.
Hauser has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the attack on animal control officer Florence Crowell by Hauser’s dog. The television station had filmed the attack and Margolin said the footage not aired would help prove his client’s innocence.
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