{"id":115901,"date":"2014-12-15T19:28:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T02:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-cleared-in-fracas-with-gun\/"},"modified":"2014-12-15T19:28:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T02:28:32","slug":"man-cleared-in-fracas-with-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-cleared-in-fracas-with-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Man cleared in fracas with gun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Cortez man accused of holding an ex-girlfriend at gunpoint while she attempted to retrieve her belongings has been found not guilty.<\/p>\n<p>Marshal Johnson, 56, of Cortez, had faced two counts of menacing and two counts of third-degree assault in connection with the incident at his County Road H residence on March 22. Jurors deliberated less than three hours before acquitting him on Dec. 4.<\/p>\n<p>According to prosecutors, Johnson punched his 29-year-old niece in her face after she and his former 31-year-old girlfriend went to his home uninvited. The ex-girlfriend called 911, prosecutors said, and Johnson then retrieved a rifle and held them at gunpoint to show that \u201che meant business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The defense argued that Johnson armed himself with an unloaded rifle in self-defense after the women attacked him, pulling his hair and grabbing his groin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:tbaker@cortezjournal.com\">tbaker@cortezjournal.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant says niece and ex-girlfriend attacked him<\/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":[585,21,525],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-115901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-assault-general","tag-cortez","tag-trials"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115901","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=115901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115901"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=115901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}