{"id":199671,"date":"2015-04-21T04:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T18:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=199671"},"modified":"2015-04-21T04:00:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T18:00:28","slug":"jury-finds-ex-tinian-fireman-not-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/jury-finds-ex-tinian-fireman-not-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury finds ex-Tinian fireman not guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Superior Court jury on Tinian reached yesterday a not guilty verdict against Christopher San Nicholas King, a 39-year-old former fireman accused of sexually abusing a then-5-year-old girl 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>After deliberating on Friday and yesterday, the six jurors acquitted King of the charge of one count of sexual abuse of a minor in the second degree.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just very thankful for the jury and their verdict. We believe in our jury system,\u201d said Joaquin Torres who, together with Victorino Torres, are co-counsels for King.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant attorney general Shannon Folley prosecuted the case.<\/p>\n<p>Presiding Judge Robert C. Naraja presided over the trial that began last April 13.<\/p>\n<p>King also used to work as a library attendant. He is currently working at the Tinian Dynasty Hotel and Casino, Saipan Tribune learned. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Superior Court jury on Tinian reached yesterday a not guilty verdict against Christopher San&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[639,38,3026,3991],"class_list":["post-199671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-joaquin-torres","tag-saipan-tribune","tag-shannon-folley","tag-victorino-torres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199671","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}