{"id":21949,"date":"2013-06-27T09:19:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T14:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=21949"},"modified":"2013-06-28T14:40:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T19:40:42","slug":"prosecutor-dismisses-bigamy-case-n-d-s-d-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=21949","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutor Dismisses Bigamy Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) &#8211; A prosecutor has decided to dismiss a bigamy case against a man who allegedly married a South Dakota woman while still married to a North Dakota woman.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Prosecutor Vic Fischbach tells the <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/11PzAzP\">American News <\/a>\u00a0that there are several reasons for his decision, including his determination that Michael Clements did not intentionally violate South Dakota law.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Clements was living in Ashley, N.D., when he was charged with bigamy for marrying a woman in Aberdeen, S.D., in June 2011 before his divorce in North Dakota was final. A circuit judge dismissed the case but the South Dakota Supreme Court overturned that decision, clearing the way for Clements to be prosecuted.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fischbach says Clements has been through enough and there are better uses of the justice system&#8217;s time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) &#8211; A prosecutor has decided to dismiss a bigamy case against a man who allegedly married a South Dakota woman while still married to a North Dakota woman. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Prosecutor Vic Fischbach tells the American News \u00a0that there are several reasons for his decision, including his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21949"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21952,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21949\/revisions\/21952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}