{"id":26206,"date":"2011-05-16T17:06:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T17:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/lawlor_says_after_jury_finds_him_not_guilty_of_assault\/"},"modified":"2011-05-16T17:06:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T17:06:07","slug":"lawlor_says_after_jury_finds_him_not_guilty_of_assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26206","title":{"rendered":"&#39;I feel vindicated,&#39; Rev. Lawlor says after jury finds him not guilty of assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a daylong trial Friday, there wasn&#8217;t much disagreement about whether a 74-year-old at St. Luke&#8217;s Episcopal Church was bumped by her pastor hard enough that she lost her balance.<\/p>\n<p>But it took a Kalamazoo District Court jury less than 45 minutes to decide that the incident didn&#8217;t rise to the level of assault and battery. That cleared the Rev. Jay R. Lawlor of the misdemeanor charge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very relieved,&#8221; Lawlor, 41, said of the not guilty verdict. &#8220;I feel vindicated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/kalamazoo\/index.ssf\/2011\/05\/i_feel_vindicated_rev_lawlor_s.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a daylong trial Friday, there wasn&#8217;t much disagreement about whether a 74-year-old at St. Luke&#8217;s Episcopal Church was bumped by her pastor hard enough that she lost her balance. But it took a Kalamazoo District Court jury less than<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26206\">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":[36,48,39,66,114,437,435,184,376,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-law-legal-issues","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26206","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=26206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}