{"id":81601,"date":"2004-06-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9fb0a396-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2004-06-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-03T00:00:00","slug":"9fb0a3a9-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/9fb0a3a9-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"AGO seeks dismissal of case vs teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Attorney General\u2019s Office yesterday asked the Superior Court to dismiss the criminal charges against a teacher who allegedly assaulted a 15-year-old student.<\/p>\n<p>James C. Burgess, 55, wants to leave the islands and vowed to never return again, according to CNMI chief prosecutor David Hutton.<\/p>\n<p>Burgess, a teacher at the Kagman High School, allegedly fought with a student after a heated altercation last Feb. 9  Hutton then charged Burgess with two counts of assault and a count of disturbing the peace.<\/p>\n<p>Hutton asked the court to dismiss the charges without prejudice to possibly refilling them again.<\/p>\n<p>Should Burgess eventually return to the CNMI, Hutton said the AGO would reinstate the criminal charges against the teacher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Attorney General\u2019s Office yesterday asked the Superior Court to dismiss the criminal charges against a teacher who allegedly assaulted a 15-year-old student.<\/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-81601","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\/81601","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=81601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}