Baltimore Police Officer Found Not Guilty for Slitting Dog’s Throat

Joshua Brown
PINAC
Nov. 20, 2015

In a controversial ruling this morning, Judge Melissa Phinn rendered a not guilty verdict to a Baltimore police officer accused of killing a dog by slitting its throat last year.

Jeffrey Bolger, who has since retired from the department, was found not guilty on all charges, including animal cruelty, mutilating an animal and misconduct in office in connection with the June 2014 killing of a Shar-Pei dog named Nala.

In rendering her verdict, Judge Phinn said she believed the dog was dead before Bolger cut its throat. And that the dog was a safety hazard because of it biting a woman earlier, according to the Baltimore Sun.

The judge also believed there was a lack of evidence, and the state’s testimony and witnesses were biased.

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