{"id":2507,"date":"2012-08-20T14:30:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T19:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=2507"},"modified":"2012-08-20T18:51:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T23:51:13","slug":"cave-takes-stand-monday-in-howard-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=2507","title":{"rendered":"Cave Takes Stand Monday In Howard Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/cavecutout2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2479\" title=\"cavecutout2\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/cavecutout2-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>JAMESTOWN, N.D. (AP &amp; KCSi-T.V. News Aug 20, 2012) \u2013 A woman who has been convicted of manslaughter says she sold drugs to the victim.<br \/>\nTwenty-two-year-old Janelle Cave testified during the fifth day (Monday Aug 20, 2012) of 34-year-old Leron Howard\u2019s trial that she sold 18-year-old Abdi Ali Ahmed marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>Howard has pleaded not guilty to murder and criminal conspiracy in the April 2011 death of Ahmed, whose body was found in a ditch near Spiritwood.<br \/>\nA jury convicted the 22-year-old Cave on manslaughter and criminal conspiracy charges in February.<\/p>\n<p>She is appealing.<\/p>\n<p>Her sentence required her to testify at Howard\u2019s trial.<br \/>\nCave denied Ahmed owed her any money.<\/p>\n<p>Cave testified that Howard struck Ahmed outside her trailer and knocked him unconscious.<\/p>\n<p>They transported Ahmed to the home of Delmonte Jones near Spiritwood, where they left Ahmed unconscious in the car.<\/p>\n<p>Cave testified that they went into the Jones\u2019 home where they did marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>The jury heard testimony regarding information recovered from a phone that allegedly belonged to Howard.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday may be the last day of testimony in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Howard is expected to take the stand during the trial to tell his version of the events surrounding Ahmed\u2019s death.<br \/>\nJudge Thomas Merrick says the case could go to the jury by midweek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAMESTOWN, N.D. (AP &amp; KCSi-T.V. News Aug 20, 2012) \u2013 A woman who has been convicted of manslaughter says she sold drugs to the victim. Twenty-two-year-old Janelle Cave testified during the fifth day (Monday Aug 20, 2012) of 34-year-old Leron Howard\u2019s trial that she sold 18-year-old Abdi Ali Ahmed marijuana. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507","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=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2556,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions\/2556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}