{"id":49453,"date":"2014-07-07T15:42:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T20:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=49453"},"modified":"2014-07-07T15:42:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T20:42:03","slug":"judge-dismisses-charges-principal-charged-in-arson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=49453","title":{"rendered":"Judge Dismisses Charges, Principal Charged In Arson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) &#8211; A Dickinson-based judge has approved a prosecutor&#8217;s request to dismiss charges in the case of a former high school principal accused of setting fire to his school in March.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Southwest District Judge William Herauf ruled to dismiss the state&#8217;s case against Thomas Sander without prejudice.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Prosecutors charged Sander, 30, with arson and endangering by fire. They said he started a fire that destroyed Trinity High School on March 3 and endangered the life of a teacher who lived in an apartment at the school. Sander pleaded not guilty.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Prosecuting attorney Tom Henning filed the motion to dismiss Thursday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Herauf had ruled two days earlier that Sander was not read his rights before part of a police interrogation and that some of his statements were coerced.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) &#8211; A Dickinson-based judge has approved a prosecutor&#8217;s request to dismiss charges in the case of a former high school principal accused of setting fire to his school in March. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Southwest District Judge William Herauf ruled to dismiss the state&#8217;s case against Thomas Sander without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49453","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\/49453","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=49453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49454,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49453\/revisions\/49454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}