Judge rules on evidence in mauling case

By Sanford A. Schulman

There will be at least one more court hearing before the Metamora Township couple accused of being responsible for the dog-mauling death of a Livonia jogger in front of their home last summer goes to trial.

Attorneys for Sebastiano Quagliata and Valbona Lucaj tried unsuccessfully, for the most part, Friday afternoon to get evidence excluded from their trial, set for May 12 in front of Chief Circuit Court Judge Nick O. Holowka.

However Holowka decided the 114 pho- tographs Lapeer County Assistant Prosecutor Mike Hodges wants to show a jury were not identified sufficiently enough for him to decide which would be admissible and which would not.

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