Judge declares mistrial after courthouse therapy dog wanders into room with jurors. Here’s why

LOCK HAVEN—A dog on Friday caused a mistrial in the criminal trial of a Dauphin County man accused of killing a dog owned by neighbors at his hunting cabin.

Judge Michael F. Salisbury declared the mistrial Friday after the courthouse therapy dog, a black lab, inadvertently got into room where jurors in the trial of Robert W. Wallish III were gathering following their lunch break.

The Hummelstown man is charged with killing a neighbor’s yellow-mix lab in 2024 while staying at his Clinton County cabin…

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