{"id":35444,"date":"2013-06-20T20:51:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T00:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=35444"},"modified":"2013-06-20T20:51:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T00:51:15","slug":"leonard-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/leonard-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard introduces bill to protect victims&#039; rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Rep. Tom Leonard<!--more--> introduced legislation that better protects a victim&#8217;s right to speak about crimes that have been committed against them.<br \/>\nHouse Bill 4839 would eliminate the prohibition against a victim from disclosing the existence of a crime that was committed against them after a defendant has the crime set aside, provided the victim has suffered direct or threatened physical, financial or emotional harm.<br \/>\nIt is currently a misdemeanor for anyone other than the person who committed the crime to divulge such information after the conviction is set aside.<br \/>\n&#8220;There is a place in our justice system for having certain crimes removed from an individual&#8217;s record after they have served their debt to society,&#8221; said Leonard, R-DeWitt Township. &#8220;However, no victim should be forced to pretend a crime was not committed against them, simply because a conviction was set aside. As a former prosecutor, I believe this is a positive, common-sense reform to protect victims&#8217; rights.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe measure was referred to the House Criminal Justice Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Rep. Tom Leonard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}