{"id":158722,"date":"2012-02-06T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/be107793-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2012-02-06T22:22:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T22:22:00","slug":"be1077a7-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/be1077a7-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury trial begins for man accused of impregnating girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. District Court for Guam Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood is presiding over a jury trial of Melvin David Diaz, a 49-year-old Guam resident who is facing charges of impregnating a girl on Rota.<\/p>\n<p>Tydingco-Gatewood began the jury selection yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Saipan Tribune learned that the jury selection will continue today, Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Former Superior Court associate judge Juan T. Lizama and attorney David Banes are representing Diaz. Assistant U.S. attorney Clyde Lemons Jr., a former CNMI criminal prosecutor, is prosecuting the case.<\/p>\n<p>Diaz is charged with three counts of enticement of a minor and one count of travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct.<\/p>\n<p>According to the indictment, between Aug. 1, 2010 and Sept. 30, 2010, Diaz traveled from Guam to the CNMI for the purpose of engaging in illicit sex with the minor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. District Court for Guam Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood is presiding over a jury trial of Melvin David Diaz, a 49-year-old Guam resident who is facing charges of impregnating a girl on Rota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}