{"id":51542,"date":"2015-09-11T02:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T02:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ai_former_suffragan_bishop_of_maryland_cook_pleads_guilty_to_vehicular_mans\/"},"modified":"2015-09-11T02:00:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T02:00:54","slug":"ai_former_suffragan_bishop_of_maryland_cook_pleads_guilty_to_vehicular_mans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51542","title":{"rendered":"(AI) Former suffragan Bishop of Maryland Cook pleads guilty to vehicular manslaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former suffragan Bishop of Maryland, Heather Cook, has pled guilty to manslaughter and accepted criminal responsibility for the death of a Baltimore cyclist whom she struck and killed while she was driving while intoxicated on 27 Dec 2014. Appearing in a Baltimore City Circuit Court on 8 Sept 2015, one day ahead of her scheduled trial, Cook (58) pled guilty to vehicular manslaughter, driving under the influence of alcohol, leaving the scene of a fatal accident and texting while driving. Prosecutors have asked the former bishop, who was deposed from the ministry of the Episcopal Church on 1 May 2015, be sentenced to 20 years imprisonment, with ten years of her sentence suspended, followed by five years probation. &#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.anglicanink.com\/article\/cook-pleads-guilty-vehicular-manslaughter#sthash.S2obYoFU.dpuf<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanink.com\/article\/cook-pleads-guilty-vehicular-manslaughter\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former suffragan Bishop of Maryland, Heather Cook, has pled guilty to manslaughter and accepted criminal responsibility for the death of a Baltimore cyclist whom she struck and killed while she was driving while intoxicated on 27 Dec 2014. Appearing<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51542\">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":[36,48,39,90,86,438,66,168,114,435,184,177,108,372,34,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-alcoholdrinking","category-alcoholism","category-death-burial-funerals","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-tec-bishops","category-theology","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51542","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=51542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}