The judge didn’t mince words when it came time to sentence five North Carolina men in an illegal dogfighting operation that involved more than 150 pit bulls. “Either the dogs have to be eliminated from the world or the people who fight the dogs or both, but there needs to be an intervention by the law and it’s going to start here,” U.S. District Judge Terrence Boyle said. The men are now using the judge’s words to appeal their sentences, arguing that he should have taken himself off the case because of his “deep-seated antagonism” toward people who engage in dogfighting and the pit bull breed itself.
