Judge urges settlement on inmate's dogfight book

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

A federal judge urged the state on Friday to try to reach a settlement with an inmate who challenged the prison system after it banned his book about how he bred and trained fighting dogs, including the Presa Canarios that killed a San Francisco woman in her apartment corridor.

Dale Bretches, a maximum-security prisoner at Pelican Bay in Del Norte County, claimed in his 2006 lawsuit that the state violated his freedom of expression by prohibiting him from publishing "Dog O'War" and distributing it in the prison system.

Bretches and his cellmate, Paul "Cornfed" Schneider, both members of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang, ran a dog-breeding business from prison with the help of outsiders. They placed two Presa Canarios with San Francisco attorneys Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel.

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He describes Knoller and Noel as "do-gooder attorneys" who were unfairly prosecuted because of pressure from "San Francisco's homosexual syndicate."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/22/BAHK1J63DM.DTL

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1. Dog fighting is illegal, so how can a book that teaches

people how to fight dogs be legal? They don't need to settle with that creep, they need to tell him that they won't allow him to profit from illegal activities, period.