{"id":8288,"date":"2013-01-26T13:05:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T13:05:51","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8288","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Antoine Jones trial starts in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/accused-drug-dealer-representing-himself-hears-prosecutors-open-their-case\/2013\/01\/25\/b480e9dc-6682-11e2-85f5-a8a9228e55e7_story.html\">Accused drug dealer, representing himself, hears prosecutors open their case<\/a> by Matt Zapotosky. Antoine Jones, the citizen accused in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/11pdf\/10-1259.pdf\">United States v. Jones<\/a>, started his trial this last week, representing himself:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As prosecutors laid out the case against him, Antoine Jones took copious notes, loudly tearing sheets of paper from a notebook as he filled each page.<\/p>\n<p>Jones, a former nightclub owner and suspected high-level cocaine dealer, is representing himself in what is his third trial on a drug conspiracy charge. If Friday\u2019s brief proceedings in the District\u2019s federal court were any indication, the next several weeks of arguments and testimony will provide several more memorable moments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8288\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}