Commonwealth v. Figley

I respectfully dissent. In holding that, under the Dog Law, the dog must have known prior dangerous propensities before being declared dangerous when it bites or attacks someone, the majority ignores the General Assembly intent when it amended the Dog Law to change the presumption that a dog is considered dangerous if it attacks or severely injures a human being only once. Unfortunately, the case that requires us to interpret this provision for the first time is not based on facts that indicate that the dog is “vicious”, but one that may have “unintentionally” inflicted severe injuries on a…