{"id":52178,"date":"2015-10-29T02:05:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T02:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/former_episcopal_bishop_heather_cook_sentenced_to_7_years_in_drunk-driving_\/"},"modified":"2015-10-29T02:05:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T02:05:53","slug":"former_episcopal_bishop_heather_cook_sentenced_to_7_years_in_drunk-driving_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52178","title":{"rendered":"Former Episcopal Bishop Heather Cook sentenced to 7 years in drunk-driving death of cyclist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Episcopal Bishop Heather Cook was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in prison for killing a cyclist in a drunken crash in Baltimore two days after Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>The sentence came at the end of a two-hour hearing in which the wife, mother and sisters-in-law of Thomas Palermo directed their grief and anger at the disgraced clergywoman.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said Cook was far above the legal limit for alcohol and sending a text message as she drove her Subaru Forester in Roland Park on the afternoon of Dec. 27. She struck and killed Palermo, a 41-year-old software engineer and father of two young children, as he enjoyed a ride.<\/p>\n<p>She left the scene twice, a fact that weighed on judge Timothy J. Doory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your leaving the scene at that time was more than irresponsibility, it was a decision,&#8221; Doory said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/baltimore-city\/bs-md-ci-heather-cook-sentencing-20151027-story.html\">Read it all<\/a> from the Baltimore Sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Episcopal Bishop Heather Cook was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in prison for killing a cyclist in a drunken crash in Baltimore two days after Christmas. The sentence came at the end of a two-hour hearing in which the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52178\">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":[36,48,39,90,86,438,66,168,114,435,184,177,108,372,34,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52178","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-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52178","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=52178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}