Jail time likely for owner in dog attack City's offered plea deal also includes restitution to the victim and fines By LAUREN STANFORTH, Staff writer Updated 08:54 p.m., Wednesday, December 21, 2011
SCHENECTADY — A city woman will likely serve jail time after her pit bulls mauled a woman in Hamilton Hill.
The city's law department has offered Jasmine Tirado a plea deal in connection with the Aug. 22 attack when three of Tirado's pit bulls jumped 58-year-old Shirleen Lucas on Hulett Street and dragged her, ripping off part of her ears and causing deep gashes to her head, arms and legs.
The plea agreement includes a minimum 30 days in jail, plus $1,250 in fines, $789 in reimbursement to the city and a still undetermined amount of restitution to Lucas for medical bills. Details of the offer were revealed in City Court Wednesday afternoon after attorneys for both sides spoke in private with City Court Judge Mark Blanchfield.
Tirado's dogs have already been euthanized.
The case, however, will still not be resolved for at least two months. Tirado's attorney, public defender Wendy Altonberg, said in court that her client still has many questions about the prosecution's offer. A pre-sentencing report must also be done by the Schenectady County Probation Department, and that is not due to the court until Feb. 15.
Blanchfield said the court will not accept any offer that includes less than a month in the County Jail. Mandatory jail time is a rarity in dog cases, as the city's main priority is to get money for victims. Tirado, who pleaded not guilty in September to three dangerous dog charges, is still facing up to 90 days in jail on each misdemeanor charge. Schenectady Assistant Corporation Counsel Evelyn Kinnah said the jail time offered in the plea deal is a minimum and could be increased. She said Tirado would be paying the maximum fines in connection with the charges.
Blanchfield said it appears Tirado has never been convicted of a crime. But Tuesday's offer also includes another ticket for dangerous dogs that Tirado never answered. In that 2010 case, one of the same pit bulls attacked another dog. Tirado was ultimately issued a warrant for her arrest for not appearing in court. The victim in that attack would also receive restitution under the law department's offer.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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Print Story Published: 1:03 pm Share Updated: 1:12 pm Two local lawmakers are pushing for a law that would hold dog owners more responsible if their pet attacks someone.
Assemblyman Jim Tedisco and Senator Hugh Farley are pushing a bill that would increase penalties so that an owner could face up to a felony, $5,000 in fines and two years in jail.
That's under the circumstances that their dog seriously injuries someone.
This law comes after 59-year-old Shirleen Lucas was attacked and disfigured by three pit bulls in Schenectady back in August of 2011.
Lawmakers say the dog's owner was recently offered a sentence of just 30 days in jail despite the fact that she had been cited twice before for harboring dangerous, unlicensed dogs.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Though this is a real problem, our elected representatives need to focus on correcting the fiscal issues that are driving the population and businesses out of NYS. Enough of the "feel good" legislation.
Reduce the number of mandated state programs that are bankrupting communities and taxpayers.
The legislature doesn't have the guts to make the hard decisions that have to be made to improve the economy, attract businesses to settle here, cut spending, and reduce taxes so they pass touchy feely laws to justify their bloated salary and benefits.
No easy fix in dog control issues By Lauren Stanforth Published 09:32 p.m., Saturday, February 4, 2012
Denver and Miami have outlawed pit bulls. Ohio, by classifying pit bulls as dangerous dogs, requires owners to buy insurance and keep them fenced or caged when outside. In New York, municipalities cannot ban specific breeds of dogs.
Assemblyman Jim Tedisco and Sen. Hugh Farley, longtime Schenectady lawmakers, have proposed legislation that would make it a felony for the owner if a dog injures someone, punishable by up to two years in prison and up to a $5,000 fine.
But enforcing regulations already on the books can be difficult.
Jasmine Tirado, whose three pit bulls mauled a Hamilton Hill woman last summer, had been issued a ticket in 2010 after one of them bit another dog. When she didn't show up in City Court, a warrant was issued for her arrest. But police don't routinely go after such minor offenders.....................>>>>...................>>>>.................Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/No-easy-fix-in-dog-control-issues-3038741.php#ixzz1lVubqAVX
Jasmine Tirado, whose three pit bulls mauled a Hamilton Hill woman last summer, had been issued a ticket in 2010 after one of them bit another dog. When she didn't show up in City Court, a warrant was issued for her arrest. But police don't routinely go after such minor offenders
And this is just ONE of many reasons why the scum bags are rushing to Schenectady!!!
........A weak to non-existent police force and court system!!
........WTH are they being paid to do?????????
They can pick and chose what warrant they are going to pursue????? OMG
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Another deal on table for dog owner By Lauren Stanforth Published 09:40 p.m., Wednesday, February 22, 2012
SCHENECTADY — The woman who owned three pit bulls that mauled a Hamilton Hill woman in August is considering another plea agreement that would allow her to serve 45 days in the county jail on weekends.
The city attorney's office made the new offer in court Wednesday. Jasmine Tirado was already considering a deal for her to serve a minimum 30 days in jail time for the attack, in which the dogs ripped off much of Shirleen Lucas' ears and scarred her arms and legs...................>>>>................>>>>.................Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/loca.....02.php#ixzz1nCcahLjc
The woman who owned three pit bulls that mauled a Hamilton Hill woman in August is considering another plea agreement that would allow her to serve 45 days in the county jail on weekends.
The city attorney's office made the new offer in court Wednesday. Jasmine Tirado was already considering a deal for her to serve a minimum 30 days
WTF!!!!!!!!!! And this is why the scum move into schenectady...........WEAK JUDGES!!! So now the CRIMINAL gets to pick which punishment she prefers? Schenectady is getting to be known as the 'plea deal capital'!!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
The political class does not get it, however- we the idiots keep electing them.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
These judges are so weak on everything. Try to get a judgement on someone for failure to pay rent. Wont happen.
Shirleet Lucas' family should be allowed 4 to 5 days to do what they want with Jasmine Tirado.
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Why did the city dem judge Blanchfield go so easy on that Tirado?
The victim didn't have just a little scrape to the elbow, she's going through several surgeries.
The voters need to remember at election time (whenever his term is up fo re-election) how lenient he was in this brutal attack
Don't even think about spewing your babble DV alluding to Blanchfield should "go after the nayboobs," or anything remotely so. The residents of the city should be able to feel safe and know that these bad owners of vicious dogs will really be punished instead of a little tap on their hand. The dogs' owner will probably acquire another pitbull(s) and we'll be reading about her again.
The jerk Blanchfield tells her to use the 30 days to think about what happened, etc. HA. Tirado will be living it up, socializing with others, cable TV at taxpayer expense, exercise, etc. She'll probably go into serve her sentence and see people she knows well. Now, if they put her in a cell without her ever seeing anyone else, not allow her out of her cell, no window in the cell, no TV or radio, just give her a crayon and paper and have her write 500 times every day something like "I will never own a dog again" or something like that.
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Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
Proof yet again on how weak the schenectady courts are!!
A woman is walking around with no ears and they strike a plea deal that equates to 30 days in jail!!!!!!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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