{"id":71271,"date":"2015-04-29T15:26:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T20:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=71271"},"modified":"2015-04-30T07:33:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T12:33:54","slug":"knodel-mistrial-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=71271","title":{"rendered":"Judge dismisses Knodel trial jury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/knodelaaron.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-53092\" alt=\"knodelaaron\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/knodelaaron.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Update&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; The sexual misconduct trial of a former North Dakota teacher of the year has ended with no verdict after the presiding judge was prompted to dismiss the jury following the medical emergency of a juror.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A female juror in the Aaron Knodel (kah-NOH&#8217;-dehl) trial was dismissed Wednesday after she was taken from the courthouse where the jury was deliberating to a hospital. The juror was disoriented and couldn&#8217;t recognize her sister at the hospital.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The 36-year-old West Fargo High School English teacher is accused of engaging in a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old female student over a period of several weeks in early 2009. He has pleaded not guilty to five counts of felony corruption or solicitation of a minor.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The prosecution could ask for a mistrial to try to put the case before a new jury. Prosecutors didn&#8217;t immediately return calls seeking comment.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Knodel&#8217;s attorney Robert Hoy says he hopes the prosecution decides against pursuing a new trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update&#8230; FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; The sexual misconduct trial of a former North Dakota teacher of the year has ended with no verdict after the presiding judge was prompted to dismiss the jury following the medical emergency of a juror. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A female juror in the Aaron Knodel (kah-NOH&#8217;-dehl) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71271","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\/71271","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=71271"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71274,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71271\/revisions\/71274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}