{"id":3624,"date":"2019-12-30T04:37:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T09:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=3624"},"modified":"2019-12-30T04:37:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T09:37:12","slug":"your-ward-news-appeals-hate-conviction-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=3624","title":{"rendered":"YOUR WARD NEWS Appeals &#8220;Hate&#8221; Conviction &#038; Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"806\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/james-sears-806x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1081\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/james-sears-806x1024.jpg 806w, https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/james-sears-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/james-sears.jpg 1410w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>YOUR WARD NEWS<\/strong><strong> Appeals &#8220;Hate&#8221; Conviction &amp; Sentence<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dr.\nJames Sears<\/strong>\nis spending the Christmas time&nbsp; poring\nover the transcripts of his conviction and sentencing to a year in jail for\ntelling jokes about Jews and women in the satirical <strong>YOUR WARD NEWS<\/strong> which he edited from 2016 to 2019. He is\nworking hard to perfect arguments against this blow to a free press. The\npublisher <strong>Leroy St. Germaine<\/strong> is also\nappealing his conviction and sentencing to a year&#8217;s house arrest. The factum or\nargument is due January 20. The date set for the appeal is March 23 in Toronto.\nAmong other things, Dr. Sears will be arguing that the judge gave insufficient\nreasons and explanation in convicting him. He is seeking a new trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YOUR WARD NEWS Appeals &#8220;Hate&#8221; Conviction &amp; Sentence Dr. James Sears is spending the Christmas time&nbsp; poring over the transcripts of his conviction and sentencing to a year in jail for telling jokes about Jews and women in the satirical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=3624\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3625,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions\/3625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}