Marjorie Knoller
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Marjorie Knoller (born c. 1946) is an attorney who was initially convicted of 2nd degree murder and manslaughter after her two Presa Canario dogs mauled her neighbor, Diane Whipple, to death in their San Francisco, California apartment building on January 26, 2001. The 2nd degree murder conviction was later overturned by Judge James Warren. She served 14 months of a 4-year sentence. Marjorie Knoller was released from prison in January of 2004. In May of 2005 a California appeals court reinstated Marjorie Knoller's 2nd degree murder conviction.
Knoller's husband, Robert Noel, was also sentenced to 4 years in prison for involuntary manslaughter.
Knoller is a graduate of Brooklyn College and McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California.