Robert Noel, left, listens with his attorney Bruce Hotchkiss, right, as guilty verdicts are delivered in the San Francisco dog mauling trial, in a courtoom in Los Angeles, Thursday, March 21, 2002.

now awaiting trial in a dog-mauling death -- made legal errors in his defense of a prison guard who was convicted of setting up assaults on inmates. However, U.S. District Judge Martin Jenkins did ...

One of the two defendants charged in the dog-mauling death of a San Francisco woman asked a judge Thursday to fire one of his attorneys. Defendant Robert Noel made the motion during a hearing to ...

CRESCENT CITY, Calif. — Standing in a soft, cold rain with the low-slung walls of Pelican Bay State Prison behind him, attorney Robert Noel seemed prepared for what he now considers the ...

His writings also noted a recent reconciliation with his only son and namesake, Robert Noel. It is unclear when Noel relocated to San Diego but he was still living in Solano County at least through ...

Knoller and Noel were caring for the two Presa Canario-mastiffs when the dogs – a 120-pound male named Bane and a 113-pound female named Hera – fatally mauled Whipple, 33, a St. Mary’s ...

Robert Noel, who went to prison after his dogs mauled his San Francisco neighbor to death in 2001, was recommended for disbarment this week. So was Robert Roland, a former S.F. prosecutor who ...

AN American lawyer whose dogs mauled a neighbour to death was yesterday jailed for four years. A US lawyer whose dogs mauled a neighbour to death was today facing life in jail after being found ...