{"id":255272,"date":"2017-06-29T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T20:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=255272"},"modified":"2017-06-29T06:00:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T20:00:53","slug":"prosecution-rests-calling-10th-witness-trial-ex-rota-cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/prosecution-rests-calling-10th-witness-trial-ex-rota-cop\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecution rests after calling 10th witness in trial of ex-Rota cop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prosecution rested yesterday after calling to the stand their 10th witness in the ongoing jury trial at Rota Courthouse of former Rota police officer Melvin Maratita Manglona. <\/p>\n<p>Defense counsel Brien Sers Nicholas did not call any witness and moved for acquittal of the 49-year-old Manglona, Saipan Tribune learned.<\/p>\n<p>Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho denied the motion.<\/p>\n<p>The jurors went home at 4:30pm. They were instructed to return today, Thursday, at 8am for the continuation of the trial.<\/p>\n<p>The parties\u2019 closing arguments and jury deliberations will be today, Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Chief prosecutor Michele Harris and assistant attorney general Teri Tenorio are prosecuting the case. <\/p>\n<p>The government alleged that Manglona sexually abused a minor girl last July and Aug. 11, 2016. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prosecution rested yesterday after calling to the stand their 10th witness in the ongoing&#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":[13143,17392,7595,15490],"class_list":["post-255272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-melvin-maratita-manglona","tag-michele-harris","tag-rota-courthouse","tag-teri-tenorio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255272","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=255272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}