Man Gets 3-Year Term in Animal Cruelty Case
A man was sentenced in Pittsburgh to more than three years in federal prison for selling mail-order videos of fighting pit bulls, after becoming the first person convicted at trial under a six-year-old animal-cruelty law.
Robert Stevens, 64, will appeal his conviction and 37-month sentence, which federal public defender Michael Novara called “inappropriate and unreasonable.”
The animal-cruelty law, signed in 1999 by President Clinton, was spawned by so-called “crush videos.”
Those tapes show small animals being crushed by women wearing spiked heels.
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