Lansing Man Sentenced To Year In Jail In Dog Torture Case

MASON, Mich. (AP) - A Lansing man convicted of animal torture who left a courthouse before his sentencing hearing in September has been sentenced to jail.

The Lansing State Journal reports Ingham County Circuit Court Judge William Collette on Wednesday admonished 34-year-old Benjamin Conley and sentenced him to a year in jail on the torture conviction. He also ordered Conley to spend 90 days in jail for contempt of court.

His younger brother, Nicholas Conley, was sentenced in September to up to a year in jail.

They were found guilty in August of stabbing a pit bull and hanging it from the roof of a house after they say it bit Benjamin Conley's teenage son.

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