{"id":102494,"date":"2017-12-10T13:37:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T20:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-man-asks-for-maximum-sentence-in-attempted-murder\/"},"modified":"2017-12-10T13:37:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T20:37:50","slug":"colorado-man-asks-for-maximum-sentence-in-attempted-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-man-asks-for-maximum-sentence-in-attempted-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado man asks for maximum sentence in attempted murder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>GRAND JUNCTION \u00e2\u20ac\u201d A 62-year-old man who pleaded guilty to attempted murder after stabbing two men with a knife in the Grand Junction area was granted his request for a sentence that will send him to prison for life.<\/p>\n<p>John Merell Siviter was sentenced 32 years in prison on Friday in Mesa County District Court.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Sentinel reports he was arrested June 10 by police officers who found him holding a large silver knife in a yard, with two victims on the ground nearby with stab wounds to their torsos.<\/p>\n<p>Siviter pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree murder, which came with a potential sentence of 10 to 32 years in prison. Siviter requested and received the maximum sentence during an appearance before District Judge Brian Flynn.<\/p>\n<p>The victims did not appear in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNCTION \u00e2\u20ac\u201d A 62-year-old man who pleaded guilty to attempted murder after stabbing two men with a knife in the Grand Junction area was granted his request for a sentence that will send him to prison for life. John Merell Siviter was sentenced 32 years in prison on Friday in Mesa County District Court. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[202],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-102494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-briefs"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102494"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=102494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}