{"id":159986,"date":"2012-03-27T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bf3f74d7-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2012-03-27T21:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T21:15:00","slug":"bf3f74e8-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bf3f74e8-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury trial set in attempted murder case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Superior Court has set a June 25, 2012, jury trial for a 20-year-old man facing attempted first-degree murder charges in connection with a foiled robbery of two Chinese nationals in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Associate Judge David A. Wiseman ordered the parties in the case against Alfred Aldan Demapan to appear on June 6, 2012, to discuss trial preparation issues.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of the Attorney General had charged Demapan with attempted first-degree murder, aggravated assault and battery, assault with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery, conspiracy to commit robbery, and two counts of attempted robbery.<\/p>\n<p>According to chief prosecutor Peter Prestley in the charging document, the attempted first-degree murder and attempted robbery occurred on Dec. 29, 2009, on Saipan. Prestley said that Demapan tried to kill Hu Cai during the robbery attempt by attacking him with a hammer.<\/p>\n<p>Demapan allegedly attempted to rob Cai and Shu Zhou of their money. No other details were provided in court papers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Superior Court has set a June 25, 2012, jury trial for a 20-year-old man facing attempted first-degree murder charges in connection with a foiled robbery of two Chinese nationals in 2009.<\/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-159986","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\/159986","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=159986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}