{"id":1689,"date":"2011-06-11T20:29:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T01:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2011-06-11T20:29:22","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T01:29:22","slug":"supreme-court-fleeing-police-in-car-is-a-violent-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1689","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court: Fleeing police in car is a violent offense"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The Supreme Court says fleeing police custody in a vehicle can be considered a violent felony.<\/p>\n<p>The high court made its ruling on Thursday in the case of Marcus Sykes.<\/p>\n<p>Sykes argued his fleeing conviction shouldn&#8217;t be considered violent and two federal appeals courts, the 7th Circuit in Chicago and the 11th Circuit in Atlanta, have ruled in opposite ways.<\/p>\n<p>The high court said in a 6-3 judgment that Sykes&#8217; flight from police can be considered a violent felony.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.policeone.com\/legal\/articles\/3801875-Supreme-Court-Fleeing-police-in-car-is-a-violent-offense\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.policeone.com\/legal\/articles\/3801875-Supreme-Court-Fleeing-police-in-car-is-a-violent-offense\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The Supreme Court says fleeing police custody in a vehicle can be considered a violent felony. The high court made its ruling on Thursday in the case of Marcus Sykes. Sykes argued his fleeing conviction shouldn&#8217;t be considered violent and two federal appeals courts, the 7th Circuit in Chicago and the 11th Circuit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}