{"id":8459,"date":"2011-05-11T07:51:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T11:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=8459"},"modified":"2011-05-11T07:51:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T11:51:33","slug":"wittels-rape-case-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/05\/wittels-rape-case-postponed","title":{"rendered":"Wittels Rape Case Postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A judge in the Bahamas has rescheduled a hearing in the rape case against Florida International University baseball star Garrett Wittels and two friends.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney representing the three men accused of raping two 17-year-old girls in Nassau said the decision to move the hearing to June 15 showed the weakness of the case against his clients, The Miami Herald reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This puts the brakes on a runaway freight train,&#8221; Miami defense attorney Richard Sharpstein said. &#8220;We believe that sooner rather than later this prosecution will be abandoned by the government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hotel surveillance videos appear to contradict statements the girls made to Bahamian investigators following the Dec. 20 incident at the Atlantis Resort and Casino, the Herald reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bahamian judge has postponed a hearing in the rape case against Florida International University baseball star Garrett Wittels and two friends.<\/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":[32,31,33],"class_list":["post-8459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8459","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=8459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}