State of Maine v. Carol Ann Murphy

MAINE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT Reporter of Decisions Decision:

2017 ME 165

Docket: Fra-16-559 Submitted On Briefs: June 29, 2017 Decided: July 25, 2017 Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and ALEXANDER, MEAD, GORMAN, HJELM, and HUMPHREY, JJ. STATE OF MAINE v. CAROL ANN MURPHY PER CURIAM [¶1] Carol Ann Murphy acquires animals and then is unable or unwilling to properly care for them. She has been twice convicted of cruelty to animals. She has been ordered never to possess animals again. Notwithstanding that order, when released from the four-year prison sentence imposed after her second conviction for cruelty…