Crime & Safety
Attorneys in Animal Cruelty Case To Argue Motions Next Week
Attorneys for both sides in the animal cruelty case against Dazzle's Painted Pastures Animal Rescue and Sanctuary owner Dawn Hamill exchanged pre-trial motions Thursday but won't argue them until next week.
The case against Dazzle's Painted Pastures Animal Rescue and Sanctuary owner Dawn Hamill is creeping toward trial, with attorneys for both sides exchanging pre-trial motions in a Markham courtroom Thursday, Aug. 9.
Hamill is charged with over the conditions at the Tinley Park shelter discovered in a . About 100 animals were removed from the shelter. Some animals, including a miniature horse, were found dead.
Neither side elaborated on the motions recently filed, but the attorneys agreed to make their arguments before Judge Anna Helen Demacopoulous on Tuesday, Aug. 14.
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Hamill stood quietly beside her attorney Purav Bhatt in court Thursday, wearing pinstriped gray slacks and a black, gray and white patterned shirt.
Bhatt wasn't immediately available for comment after Thursday's brief hearing but has told Patch in previous interviews that he was investigating the relationship between the prosecution's star witness and the Animal Welfare League.
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Jury selection is tentatively scheduled for Sept. 11.
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