{"id":137685,"date":"2018-02-01T07:38:11","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T13:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=137685"},"modified":"2018-02-01T07:38:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T13:38:35","slug":"trail-starts-for-james-watson-former-lamoure-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=137685","title":{"rendered":"Trail starts for James Watson, former LaMoure Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-124397\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WatsonJames-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WatsonJames-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WatsonJames-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WatsonJames.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Beach, ND\u00a0 (Dickinson Press) The first of three jury trials for the former LaMoure police chief accused of continuous sexual abuse of a child began in Beach on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Dickinson Press reports, 52 year old James G. Watson, of LaMoure, faces the following charges:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Golden Valley County: One count of continuous sexual abuse of a child, a Class AA felony.<\/li>\n<li>Hettinger County: One count of gross sexual imposition, a Class AA felony.<\/li>\n<li>Stark County: One count of continuous sexual abuse of a child, a Class AA felony.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Watson appeared in front of Southwest District Court Judge William Herauf along with his attorney, Kevin McCabe, at the Golden Valley Courthouse in Beach for the Golden Valley case.<\/p>\n<p>After some deliberation, \u00a0Wednesday, Judge Herauf moved to recess for the day in order to make a decision about whether he would allow testimony about the alleged acts in Mississippi. The case will resume at 9 a.m. on Thursday, February, 1.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beach, ND\u00a0 (Dickinson Press) The first of three jury trials for the former LaMoure police chief accused of continuous sexual abuse of a child began in Beach on Wednesday. The Dickinson Press reports, 52 year old James G. Watson, of LaMoure, faces the following charges: Golden Valley County: One count [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":124397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137685","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\/137685","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=137685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137686,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137685\/revisions\/137686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/124397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}