{"id":10525,"date":"2011-07-27T09:40:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T13:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=10525"},"modified":"2011-07-27T09:40:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T13:40:34","slug":"murderer-gets-slap-on-the-wrist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/07\/murderer-gets-slap-on-the-wrist","title":{"rendered":"Murderer Gets Slap on The Wrist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Bernard Turner sentenced a man  to nine years in prison after he pleaded guilty to the reduced charge of  manslaughter in the death of a love rival earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Chuck Brennen, 44, plea bargained his way to a reduuced charge of manslaughter midway through his murder trial. Brennen was charged in the January 18, 2011 murder of Pedro Williams, who died moments after  Brennen used his automobile to intentionally knock Mr Williams off his bicycle at East Street and  Sunlight Cottage.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the plea, Justice Bernard Turner directed the jury to  acquit Brennen of murder and return a unanimous guilty verdict for  manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>According to the evidence, Williams, who was married, had previously  dated Brennen\u2019s girlfriend and he (Brennen) was annoyed that they still  remained friends.\u00a0 Brennen, Williams and the girlfriend argued shortly  before he ran over Williams with his Pontiac Sunfire, the court heard.<\/p>\n<p>Pathologist Dr. Caryn Sands said Williams died minutes after the crash from severe injuries to the head and torso.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A murderer received a paltry nine-year sentence after incompetent prosecutors plea bargained the murder charge down to manslaughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[32,31,142],"class_list":["post-10525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-incompetence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}