{"id":233943,"date":"2021-09-07T14:42:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T19:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=233943"},"modified":"2021-09-07T14:42:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T19:42:36","slug":"judge-tosses-rodriguez-jrs-death-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=233943","title":{"rendered":"Judge Tosses Rodriguez, Jr&#8217;s. Death Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-117579\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/rodriguezalfonso.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/rodriguezalfonso.jpg 286w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/rodriguezalfonso-181x175.jpg 181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/>FARGO, N.D. (AP) \u2014 A federal judge has thrown out the death sentence for a man convicted in the 2003 slaying of a North Dakota college student. Judge Ralph Erickson ruled Friday that misleading testimony from a medical examiner and limitations on mental health evidence violated Alfonso Rodriguez Jr.\u2019s constitutional rights. He ordered a new sentencing phase be conducted. Rodriguez has been on death row for nearly two decades. He was convicted of killing Dru Sjodin, a Minnesota woman who was abducted from a Grand Forks mall parking lot in November 2003. Rodriguez, a sex offender, was arrested the following month. Sjodin\u2019s body wasn\u2019t found until the following April near Crookston, Minnesota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FARGO, N.D. (AP) \u2014 A federal judge has thrown out the death sentence for a man convicted in the 2003 slaying of a North Dakota college student. Judge Ralph Erickson ruled Friday that misleading testimony from a medical examiner and limitations on mental health evidence violated Alfonso Rodriguez Jr.\u2019s constitutional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":117579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233943","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\/233943","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=233943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233944,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233943\/revisions\/233944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}