{"id":5865,"date":"2010-04-12T06:15:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T11:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=5865"},"modified":"2010-04-12T06:15:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T11:15:42","slug":"its-not-double-jeopardy-its-final-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/12\/its-not-double-jeopardy-its-final-jeopardy\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not Double Jeopardy, It&#8217;s Final Jeopardy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cop demands a hummer from an underage girl and gets probation.  Fortunately for the delicate sensitivities of your Federal government, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=20104100361\" target=\"_blank\">an alternate charge available<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Friday, Steven Burgess was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison without parole for <strong>violating the girl&#8217;s civil rights<\/strong>. His attorney, John O&#8217;Connor, said Burgess agreed to the plea bargain because it was better than the <strong>life sentence<\/strong> federal prosecutors were prepared to recommend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So how do you feel knowing that you can be put in an FCI for life for violating someone&#8217;s civil rights?  Don&#8217;t you get the sense that that particular charge is rather elastic?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cop demands a hummer from an underage girl and gets probation. Fortunately for the delicate sensitivities of your Federal government, there&#8217;s an alternate charge available. On Friday, Steven Burgess was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison without parole for violating the girl&#8217;s civil rights. His attorney, John O&#8217;Connor, said Burgess agreed to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-overreach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5867,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865\/revisions\/5867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}