{"id":7363,"date":"2018-01-19T17:19:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T22:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7363"},"modified":"2018-01-19T17:19:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T22:19:47","slug":"texas-jury-wickedly-defies-you-know-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7363","title":{"rendered":"Texas jury wickedly defies you-know-who"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas judge interrupted jury deliberations to tell them that God had told him that the defendant is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/crime--law\/texas-judge-interrupts-jury-says-god-told-him-defendant-not-guilty\/ZRdGbT7xPu7lc6kMMPeWKL\/\" target=\"_blank\">innocent of the charges<\/a> against her.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A state district judge in Comal County said God told him to intervene in jury deliberations to sway jurors to return a not guilty verdict in the trial of a Buda woman accused of trafficking a teen girl for sex.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wickedy, impudently, impiously, the jury went right ahead and convicted the defendant of trafficking anyway.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The jury went against the judge\u2019s wishes, finding Gloria Romero-Perez guilty of continuous trafficking of a person and later sentenced her to 25 years in prison.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As everyone know, you don&#8217;t flout the will of Our Invisible Friend without consequence, though they are almost always visited upon the blameless, and at great remove.  I don&#8217;t have a pipeline to the Cosmic Mind, or anything, but if I lived in North Dakota I&#8217;d buy myself a hardhat and start making tornado preparations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas judge interrupted jury deliberations to tell them that God had told him that the defendant is innocent of the charges against her. A state district judge in Comal County said God told him to intervene in jury deliberations &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7363\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7363"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7365,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7363\/revisions\/7365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}