{"id":25349,"date":"2012-07-31T05:41:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T05:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=25349"},"modified":"2012-07-31T05:41:11","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T05:41:11","slug":"ex-convict-found-not-guilty-of-stealing-cops-cell-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/ex-convict-found-not-guilty-of-stealing-cops-cell-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-convict found not guilty of stealing cop&#8217;s cell phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho yesterday acquitted an ex-convict accused of stealing a government-issued cell phone belonging to a police sergeant.<\/div>\n<p>During a bench trial, Camacho found Hilario T. Angui not guilty of theft because the Office of the Attorney General failed to prove an element of the crime-the value of the cell phone.<\/p>\n<p>The judge cited a previous court decision stating that when a particular fact-whether it is considered an \u201celement\u201d of a crime or a \u201csentencing factor\u201d-exposes a defendant to a greater punishment, then the Sixth Amendment requires a jury to find it beyond a reasonable doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Camacho also determined that the testimonies of the police officers were different from their police report.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant attorney general Darren Robinson prosecuted the case. Court-appointed counsel Richard W. Pierce served as counsel for the 29-year-old Angui.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution called to the witness stand the alleged victim and two other police officers and a civilian. The defense did not call any witness.<\/p>\n<p>According to the charging information, Angui stole Police Sgt. Joe Saures&#8217; government issued Samsung Galaxy Fit S5670L-with a value of less than $250-on March 19, 2012, on Saipan,<\/p>\n<p>Police detective Jonathan SN. Decena stated in his report that, on March 19, 2012, at 10:22pm, two police officers went to Tokyo Club in western Garapan to pick up Saures&#8217; cell phone from Hun Jin An. Saures left the cell phone at the club.<\/p>\n<p>The responding officers were told that Angui, who was sitting with An&#8217;s friend in the club, stole the cell phone.<\/p>\n<p>An&#8217;s friend allegedly saw Angui take the cell phone from the table and walk out of the club.<\/p>\n<p>That same night, police officers spotted Angui near Rui Jin Store in western Garapan and arrested him.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the suspect stated that he thought the cell phone belonged to An.<\/p>\n<p>Angui pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n<p>By Ferdie de la Torre<br \/>\nReporter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho yesterday acquitted an ex-convict accused of stealing a&#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":[],"class_list":["post-25349","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\/25349","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=25349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}