State v. Bodoh

¶ 1. The defendant, Jene R. Bodoh (Bodoh), was tried and convicted of injury by negligent handling of dangerous weapon in violation of Wis. Stat. § 940.24 as a result of his two Rottweiler dogs attacking a fourteen-year-old boy who was riding his bicycle. Bodoh requests that this court reverse the decision of the court of appeals which upheld his conviction. Bodoh asserts: 1) his dogs are not "dangerous weapons" as that phrase is used in the statute; 2) he was not "handling" or "operating" his dogs at the time of the attack as those words are used in the statute; and 3) he was not "criminally…