{"id":2250,"date":"2017-08-16T13:01:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T13:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=2250"},"modified":"2017-08-16T13:01:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T13:01:50","slug":"arpaio-asks-for-conviction-to-be-tossed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/arpaio-asks-for-conviction-to-be-tossed\/","title":{"rendered":"Arpaio asks for conviction to be tossed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio hasn\u2019t officially asked for a pardon from President Trump, but is seeking a new trial or to have his criminal contempt conviction thrown out by an Arizona court, according to his lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>In two new filings late Monday with the court that convicted him in June, Arpaio says he was subjected to double jeopardy, should have been allowed a jury trial and was maltreated by the judge who used evidence selectively to paint the lawman in the worst possible light.<\/p>\n<p>Arpaio\u2019s lawyers said the former sheriff of Maricopa County should either be granted an acquittal or given a new trial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese filings outline the egregious conduct of the trial court, its refusal to take into consideration the evidence at trial and its denial of due process rights for our client,\u201d Mark D. Goldman, one of Arpaio\u2019s lawyers, told The Washington Times, describing the filings as unusual but necessary given the way the judge handled the case.<\/p>\n<p>The filings came after President Trump said over the weekend that he is \u201cseriously considering\u201d granting a pardon to Arpaio, an early supporter of his presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio hasn\u2019t officially asked for a pardon from President Trump, but is seeking a new trial or to have his criminal contempt conviction thrown out by an Arizona court, according to his lawyers. In two new filings late Monday with the court that convicted him in June, Arpaio says he was subjected [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2252,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions\/2252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}