[span id="article"][span id="intelliTXT"][font color="#000000" face="Verdana,Sans-serif" size="2"]Dog With College Degree Called to Court
[/font][/span][/span][span id="article"][font face="Verdana,Sans-serif"][font color="black" size="2"][span id="article"][span id="intelliTXT"] FOSTORIA, Ohio (AP) - An attorney challenging the authority of the city's police chief wants the department's police dog to appear in court as an exhibit, because he says the dog and the chief have criminal justice degrees from the same online school.
[/span][/span][/font][/font][/span][span id="article"][font face="Verdana,Sans-serif"][font color="black" size="2"][span id="article"][span id="intelliTXT"] The issue gives "one pause, if not paws, for concern" about what it takes to get the degrees from the school based in the Virgin Islands, Gene Murray wrote in a court document filed Monday.[/p] Murray is seeking to have a drug charge against a client dismissed by arguing that police Chief John McGuire - who is accused of lying on his job application - was not legally employed and had no authority as an officer.[/p][/span][/span][/font][/font][/span][span id="article"][font face="Verdana,Sans-serif"][font color="black" size="2"][span id="article"][span id="intelliTXT"][a href="vny!://apnews.myway.com/article/20070301/D8NJCHMG0.html"]vny!://apnews.myway.com/article/20070301/D8NJCHMG0.html[/a]
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