CRIMINAL TRIAL ORDERED IN AX KILLING OF DOG.Byline: Jesse Hiestand Daily News Staff Writer A defense attorney for a man accused of slaughtering and burning his tenant's dog said Monday that his client may have done it after he stopped taking medication for paranoid schizophrenia paranoid schizophrenia n. Schizophrenia characterized predominantly by megalomania and delusions of persecution. paranoid schizophrenia DSM 295. . Attorney Tim Quinn Tim Quinn is an Australian politician. His reign as Brisbane's Lord Mayor was one of the city's shortest. Quinn, part of the left wing faction of the Australian Labor Party, came to power after a factional deal by party officials following popular Lord Mayor Jim Soorley's said medication will be a key part of the defense after Javier Castellanos Javier Castellano (born October 23, 1977 in Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela) is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. Castellano began his riding career in his native Venezuela in 1996 and in June of 1997 moved to the United States where rode at race tracks in southern , 20, was ordered tried on charges of animal cruelty and using a deadly or dangerous weapon. Castellanos faces up to three years in prison in convicted of killing the dog with an ax. Castellanos is being held for observation at Ventura County's Hillmont Psychiatric psy·chi·at·ric adj. Of or relating to psychiatry. psychiatric adjective Pertaining to psychiatry, mental disorders Center, Quinn said. He is accused of using an ax to attack James Pykonen's 8-year-old dog, Akbar, then setting fire to the shepherd-Labrador mix. Quinn said his client's state of mind will be an issue in the case because he may have believed the dog was attacking him. During Castellanos' preliminary hearing Monday, Pykonen testified that the defendant said he used the ax to defend himself after Akbar tried to bite him March 31. ``(Castellanos) told me Akbar had tried to bite him so he defended himself by killing him with an ax,'' Pykonen said. ``I was in a state of shock, disbelief Disbelief See also Skepticism. Capys Trojan who mistrusted Trojan Horse; cautioned against bringing it into the city. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 50] Cassandra no one gave credence to her accurate prophecies of doom. [Gk. Myth. . I couldn't believe it happened.'' |
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