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Raimondo’s role
Legal commentator explaining possible misdemeanor or felony exposure and the importance of evaluating the full recording.
Coverage highlights
- Central issue: After security video showed a woman kicking a dog, Raimondo discussed the evidence and potential animal-cruelty charges that investigators could consider.
- Raimondo’s involvement: Legal commentator explaining possible misdemeanor or felony exposure and the importance of evaluating the full recording.
- Archive record: Eyewitness News, published February 23, 2022.
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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — Security camera video posted on Facebook Friday has caused an uproar in Bakersfield. The video came from Rina Graciliano's Ring camera. "The video was taken from my driveway camera and as soon as I saw the notification of some movement on my front yard, I immediately opened it and then I saw the lady kicking her dog," Graciliano, said. She tried confronting her neighbor, "I ran out there and tried to talk to her, ask her why she was kicking her dog, but she didn't speak English, there was a language barrier." Sunday afternoon, dog owners protested in front of the woman's house. <iframe src=" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto" loading="lazy"></iframe> Mark Anthony Raimondo, a criminal defense attorney says one part of the video stands out in particular, "She's trying to teach the dog something, using the…
He's a small dog, so I don't know why she's kicking the dog, it seems kind of odd. But right here, when she kicks it right here, right in the face, I mean that's a little too much, no matter what county you live in." Raimondo said the woman could be looking at a misdemeanor charge, "In the real-life terms, depending upon her record, things like that, she most likely gets some type of classes, maybe a fine, maybe a minor criminal record that could be expunged later.
This is not the type of case anyone would go to jail on." Graciliano tells Eyewitness News animal control cited the woman but did not take the dog away because it had no visible injuries. "Has she put the dog in some kind of danger? Unwarranted, unnecessary danger for its own safety?
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