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LOS ANGELES (AP) A jury was selected Friday for the trial of a San Francisco couple whose dogs mauled a neighbor to death in their apartment building last year. Opening statements were scheduled for Tuesday. Diane Whipple, a 33-year-old college lacrosse coach, was killed outside her door by two big Presa Canario dogs. The case was moved to Los Angeles because of extensive publicity. Husband-and-wife lawyers Marjorie Knoller, 46, and Robert Noel, 60, are charged with involuntary manslaughter. Knoller, who was walking the dogs at the time of the attack, is also charged with second-degree murder. Both dogs, each weighing more than 100 pounds, have been destroyed.
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