Photos by Sarah Leavenworth<br>Public defender Britt Cotter shows an e-mail admitted into evidence to Sgt. Jerry McKeen during an evidentiary hearing last Wednesday. McKeen was called as a witness for the prosecution and defense in the case Aleta Rogers, charged with 29 counts of animal cruelty.
December 26, 2007
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December 26, 2007 midnight
Warrant issue focus of dogs cruelty evidence hearing
The wretched conditions 54 dogs were allegedly subjected to at the hands of Aleta Rogers were only touched on in an evidentiary hearing that zeroed in on the legality of a police officer's warrantless entrance onto the woman's secluded Thompson Falls-area property.