{"id":4812,"date":"2012-10-02T10:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T15:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4812"},"modified":"2012-10-02T10:39:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T15:39:49","slug":"students-plead-guilty-to-petition-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4812","title":{"rendered":"Students Plead Guilty To Petition Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/APwhite.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-647\" title=\"APwhite\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/APwhite-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Ten North Dakota State University football<br \/>\nplayers charged in a petition fraud case have pleaded guilty to a<br \/>\nmisdemeanor election offense and will serve no jail time if they<br \/>\nmeet certain conditions.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The scandal stopped two citizen initiatives from making the<br \/>\nNovember ballot, including one aimed at making marijuana use legal<br \/>\nfor sick people.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The NDSU players who pleaded guilty Tuesday include starters<br \/>\nSamuel Ojuri, Joshua Colville, Marcus Williams and Brendin Pierre.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The 10 players were ordered to complete 50 hours of community<br \/>\nservice and pay $325 in fees. The offense will be cleared from<br \/>\ntheir record in a year if they stay out of trouble.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Coach Craig Bohl has said the players could face team discipline<br \/>\nbut not suspensions.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NDSU is ranked No. 1 in the Football Championship Subdivision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Ten North Dakota State University football players charged in a petition fraud case have pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor election offense and will serve no jail time if they meet certain conditions. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The scandal stopped two citizen initiatives from making the November ballot, including one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812","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=4812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4814,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812\/revisions\/4814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}