{"id":17466,"date":"2010-01-23T00:08:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T00:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/canadian_polygamist_sues_over_unlawful_prosecution\/"},"modified":"2010-01-23T00:08:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T00:08:49","slug":"canadian_polygamist_sues_over_unlawful_prosecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17466","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Polygamist Sues Over &#39;Unlawful&#39;\u2019 Prosecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Canadian man who admits to having multiple wives is suing the government of British Columbia for \u201cunlawful\u201d\u009d prosecution after it charged him with practicing polygamy.<\/p>\n<p>The polygamy charge was thrown out last September after a judge ruled that the provincial attorney general had no jurisdiction to appoint a special prosecutor in the case.<\/p>\n<p>In his statement of claim, filed in the British Columbia Supreme Court, Winston Blackmore said, \u201cThe (attorney general) acted in a manner that was high handed, arbitrary, reckless, abusive, improper and inconsistent with the honor of the Crown and the administration of justice.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/news.php?viewStory=15505\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Canadian man who admits to having multiple wives is suing the government of British Columbia for \u201cunlawful\u201d\u009d prosecution after it charged him with practicing polygamy. The polygamy charge was thrown out last September after a judge ruled that the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17466\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,207,168,114,98,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-canada","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}