{"id":41068,"date":"2025-09-18T20:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/18\/former-lawmaker-accused-of-child-porn-charges-requests-trial-move\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T20:00:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:00:56","slug":"former-lawmaker-accused-of-child-porn-charges-requests-trial-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/18\/former-lawmaker-accused-of-child-porn-charges-requests-trial-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Lawmaker Accused of Child Porn Charges Requests Trial Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/omKiBlO6F5k?cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>A former South Carolina lawmaker facing serious criminal charges is requesting a change of venue for his upcoming trial. The former representative, who is accused of distributing child pornography online, says media coverage has made it impossible to receive a fair and impartial trial in the current location. The defendant, who plans to represent himself, filed a handwritten motion asking the court to relocate the proceedings. His trial is scheduled to begin October 9th in Columbia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former South Carolina lawmaker facing serious criminal charges is requesting a change of venue for his upcoming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":41069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upstate-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}