{"id":62097,"date":"2018-11-16T17:43:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T00:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/trials-reset-for-couple-charged-with-animal-cruelty\/"},"modified":"2018-11-17T00:43:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T00:43:49","slug":"trials-reset-for-couple-charged-with-animal-cruelty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/trials-reset-for-couple-charged-with-animal-cruelty\/","title":{"rendered":"Trials reset for couple charged with animal cruelty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=961d20fa-ee05-4645-ab71-51b6329b64ba&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"Jeffery and Elizabeth Jackson, charged with 31 counts of animal cruelty, waived their rights to a speedy trial and had their jury trial dates reset earlier this week.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Jeffery and Elizabeth Jackson, charged with 31 counts of animal cruelty, waived their rights to a speedy trial and had their jury trial dates reset earlier this week.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Two La Plata County residents charged with more than 30 counts of animal cruelty had their jury trials reset this week.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffery and Elizabeth Jackson were supposed to stand trial in November and December, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>But 6th Judicial District Attorney Christian Champagne said Friday that the Jacksons waived their right to a speedy trial. Now, Jeffery Jackson has a jury trial scheduled to start Feb. 21 and Elizabeth Jackson, who also goes by the name Elizabeth Miera, has a jury trial scheduled to start April 11.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2017, authorities executed a massive animal seizure on the Jacksons\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 property in southwestern La Plata County after a lengthy investigation into the mistreatment of animals. The couple has pleaded not guilty to the charges.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffery and Elizabeth Jackson waive right to speedy trail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1078,168,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-62097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-6th-judicial-district","tag-crime","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62097","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=62097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62097"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=62097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}