{"id":2346,"date":"2009-09-28T20:24:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T01:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2009\/09\/28\/fair-trial\/"},"modified":"2009-09-28T20:24:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T01:24:22","slug":"fair-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2009\/09\/fair-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>SOUTH BEND, Indiana, September 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) &#8211; The attorney representing the pro-lifers arrested while protesting Obama at Notre Dame today repeated his request that the judge in the case, who is married to a pro-abortion Notre Dame professor, be removed from the case.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney Tom Dixon&#8217;s motion provides detailed support for his assertion in a previous recusal motion that there exists sufficient actual and perceived bias that Judge Jenny Pitts Manier, the judge assigned to the &#8220;ND 88&#8221; case, is required by Indiana state law to recuse herself in the matter.  Dixon states that ever since Judge Manier has known her husband, Professor Edward Manier, he has been a well-known and outspoken advocate of the pro-abortion position.<\/p>\n<p>As his views were well-known and have largely defined his identity at Notre Dame, Dixon argues, it seems implausible that Judge Manier could claim to be unaware of his views on the &#8220;ND 88&#8221; case, which stem from &#8220;the single biggest controversy in the history of the University of Notre Dame.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aipnews.com\/talk\/forums\/thread-view.asp?tid=8408&#038;posts=2\" target=\"_blank\">[reference]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"blog\">Bad enough that the university employs this pro-abortion professor and has even published a book on abortion under the universitiy&#8217;s press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTH BEND, Indiana, September 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) &#8211; The attorney representing the pro-lifers arrested while protesting Obama at Notre Dame today repeated his request that the judge in the case,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}