{"id":677,"date":"2006-10-06T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/10\/vigils-attorneys-challenge-conviction\/"},"modified":"2006-10-06T08:12:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-06T14:12:00","slug":"vigils-attorneys-challenge-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/10\/vigils-attorneys-challenge-conviction\/","title":{"rendered":"Vigil&#8217;s attorneys challenge conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/1600\/Vigil%2C%20Robert.13.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/200\/Vigil%2C%20Robert.11.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Former state Treasurer Robert Vigil\u2019s attorneys are challenging the guilty verdict that was handed down Saturday on a sole count in the federal racketeering and extortion case.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">They claim the guilty verdict isn\u2019t based on sufficient evidence, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/state\/499402nm10-06-06.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Albuquerque Journal<\/a>. The request was expected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Vigil was convicted on one of 24 counts \u2013 attempted extortion \u2013 but acquitted on the other 23. Sentencing has been set for Jan. 5, and Vigil faces between 12 months and 20 years in prison. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former state Treasurer Robert Vigil\u2019s attorneys are challenging the guilty verdict that was handed down Saturday on a sole count in the federal racketeering and extortion case. They claim the guilty verdict isn\u2019t based on sufficient evidence, according to the Albuquerque Journal. The request was expected. Vigil was convicted on one of 24 counts \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}