{"id":104,"date":"2004-04-15T06:26:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-15T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=104"},"modified":"2004-04-15T06:26:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-15T11:26:00","slug":"liar-liar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"Liar, Liar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, Chappell Hartridge, the outspoken juror on the Martha Stewart case who gloated to the press that her conviction was &#8220;a victory for the little guys who lose money in the market&#8221;, turns out to be an <a href=\"http:\/\/business.bostonherald.com\/businessNews\/view.bg?articleid=2296\" target=\"_blank\">accused embezzler <\/a>with a cocaine habit.<br \/>\nHartridge also has been arrested on assault charges, and three lawsuits have been filed against him.  In addition, his son was convicted of attempted robbery in 2000.<br \/>\nThis ignoble defender of the &#8220;little guy&#8221; failed to disclose any of these facts on his jury form, which he was obliged to do, and this has become the basis for an appeal by Stewart&#8217;s legal team, which after weeks of ineptitude in court actually decided to mount a defense on her behalf.<br \/>\nOh, and did I tell you that the organization which claims the Hartridge stole from them is the Bronx Little League?<br \/>\nThe AP reports that Hartridge, who was so eager to babble to the press after the Stewart trial, &#8220;could not immediately be reached for comment. A listed phone number for him was out of service.&#8221;<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the prosecution feels that Stewart&#8217;s attorneys &#8220;are trying to do a very bad thing&#8221;.<br \/>\nExcuse me, but I thought that the whole point of bringing Stewart to trial was the fact that she supposedly lied to the government?<br \/>\nSo, I guess it&#8217;s okay for a black man to lie, but not an uppity white woman?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Chappell Hartridge, the outspoken juror on the Martha Stewart case who gloated to the press that her conviction was &#8220;a victory for the little guys who lose money in the market&#8221;, turns out to be an accused embezzler with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=104\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}