{"id":131513,"date":"2017-10-25T07:28:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T12:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=131513"},"modified":"2017-10-25T07:28:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T12:28:07","slug":"chase-iron-eyes-prepares-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=131513","title":{"rendered":"Chase Iron Eyes prepares defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-98088\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IronEyesChase-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IronEyesChase-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IronEyesChase-260x175.png 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IronEyesChase.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 An American Indian activist and former U.S. congressional candidate in North Dakota accused of inciting a riot during protests against the Dakota Access pipeline says he\u2019ll seek to present a \u201cnecessity defense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s justifying a crime by arguing it prevented a greater harm.<\/p>\n<p>Chase Iron Eyes has pleaded not guilty to inciting a riot and criminal trespass. He could face more than five years in prison if convicted at trial in February.<\/p>\n<p>Pipeline protesters who try the necessity defense typically argue they\u2019re combatting climate change. Iron Eyes, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, says he hopes to show that civil disobedience was his only option to resist a threat to drinking water from the pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>A judge will hear arguments Nov. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 An American Indian activist and former U.S. congressional candidate in North Dakota accused of inciting a riot during protests against the Dakota Access pipeline says he\u2019ll seek to present a \u201cnecessity defense.\u201d That\u2019s justifying a crime by arguing it prevented a greater harm. Chase Iron Eyes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":98088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131514,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131513\/revisions\/131514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}