{"id":538,"date":"2003-07-03T11:14:52","date_gmt":"2003-07-03T11:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=538"},"modified":"2003-07-03T11:14:52","modified_gmt":"2003-07-03T11:14:52","slug":"man-gets-life-in-prison-for-spitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2003\/07\/man-gets-life-in-prison-for-spitting\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Gets Life in Prison for Spitting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&#038;storyID=3032296\" target=\"blank\" class=\"external external_icon\">An Oklahoma man arrested on suspicion of beating his wife faced year in prison and a fine. But when he spit in an arresting officer&#8217;s face, he got a life sentence instead<\/a>, officials said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>John Carl Marquez, 36, was convicted of &#8220;placing bodily fluid upon a government employee,&#8221; a felony that can carry a life sentence because of the possibility of transmitting a potentially deadly disease.<\/p>\n<p>State judge April Sellers White sentenced Marquez this week even though Marquez and the officer tested negative for any communicable disease.<\/p>\n<p>Marquez also was convicted of assaulting a police officer, and a jury recommended the maximum sentence because he had previous convictions.<\/p>\n<p>Marquez, arrested several months ago, could have received one year in prison and a $3,000 fine for wife beating, according to the Creek County court clerk&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyers said they plan to appeal.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevendaggers.com\" target=\"blank\" class=\"external external_icon\">7d<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) &#8211; An Oklahoma man arrested on suspicion of beating his wife faced year in prison and a fine. But when he spit in an arresting officer&#8217;s face, he got a life sentence instead, officials said on Wednesday. John Carl Marquez, 36, was convicted of &#8220;placing bodily fluid upon a government employee,&#8221; a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}