{"id":614,"date":"2016-01-04T18:50:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T18:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/?p=614"},"modified":"2019-03-29T23:53:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T23:53:22","slug":"judge-unbelievably-refuses-to-grant-a-retrial-for-former-rep-renzi-despite-finding-rampant-prosecutorial-wrongdoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/2016\/01\/04\/judge-unbelievably-refuses-to-grant-a-retrial-for-former-rep-renzi-despite-finding-rampant-prosecutorial-wrongdoing\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Unbelievably Refuses to Grant a Retrial for Former Rep. Renzi Despite Finding Rampant Prosecutorial Wrongdoing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tucson Federal District Court Judge David Bury issued a decision on December 30 denying a retrial for imprisoned former Congressman Rick Renzi of Arizona. Bizarrely, at the same time, Bury admitted in his nine-page opinion that virtually everything factual Renzi had asserted in his motion for a retrial regarding the prosecution\u2019s misconduct was true. The prosecution withheld exculpatory evidence from Renzi\u2019s defense \u2014 which likely would have changed the jury\u2019s mind \u2014 not just once, but multiple times.<\/p>\n<p>Read more of this story at <em>Townhall<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/rachelalexander\/2016\/01\/04\/judge-unbelievably-refuses-to-grant-a-retrial-for-former-rep-renzi-despite-finding-rampant-prosecutorial-wrongdoing-n2099652\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/rachelalexander\/2016\/01\/04\/judge-unbelievably-refuses-to-grant-a-retrial-for-former-rep-renzi-despite-finding-rampant-prosecutorial-wrongdoing-n2099652<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tucson Federal District Court Judge David Bury issued a decision on December 30 denying a retrial for imprisoned former Congressman Rick Renzi of Arizona. Bizarrely, at the same time, Bury admitted in his nine-page opinion that virtually everything factual Renzi had asserted in his motion for a retrial regarding the prosecution\u2019s misconduct was true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abuseofpower.org\/grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}