{"id":3152,"date":"2012-08-30T07:30:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T12:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=3152"},"modified":"2012-08-30T08:15:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T13:15:51","slug":"former-judge-hoffman-disbarred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=3152","title":{"rendered":"Former Judge Hoffman Disbarred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hoffman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3153\" title=\"hoffman\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hoffman-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 A former North Dakota district judge has been disbarred after he was convicted for molesting a young girl.<\/p>\n<p>North Dakota\u2019s Supreme Court ordered Randall Hoffman disbarred on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Hoffman has been suspended from practicing law for almost nine years. He was working as the police chief in Elgin, in southwestern North Dakota, when he was accused of assaulting a teenage girl repeatedly over five years.<\/p>\n<p>Hoffman pleaded guilty. Last October he was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Justice Gerald VandeWalle says Hoffman didn\u2019t challenge a disciplinary panel\u2019s recommendation that he be disbarred.<\/p>\n<p>Hoffman served as a district judge in Jamestown for almost five years. He resigned in April 1999 after a disciplinary complaint accused him of showing disrespect for North Dakota\u2019s courts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 A former North Dakota district judge has been disbarred after he was convicted for molesting a young girl. North Dakota\u2019s Supreme Court ordered Randall Hoffman disbarred on Wednesday. Hoffman has been suspended from practicing law for almost nine years. He was working as the police chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3152","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\/3152","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=3152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3158,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions\/3158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}