{"id":21917,"date":"2013-06-13T16:59:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T20:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=21917"},"modified":"2013-06-13T16:59:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T20:59:47","slug":"chad-johnson-lawyer-seeks-cut-in-30-day-jail-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=21917","title":{"rendered":"Chad Johnson Lawyer Seeks Cut In 30-Day Jail Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI &#8212; The backside pat former NFL star <strong>Chad Johnson<\/strong> gave his lawyer in court was not meant as disrespect to a judge and certainly wasn&#8217;t something that warrants a 30-day jail sentence, the attorney said Tuesday in a motion seeking another chance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adam Swickle<\/strong> asked Broward County Circuit <strong>Judge Kathleen McHug<\/strong>h to reconsider the sentence she imposed Monday. <strong>Johnson<\/strong> had reached a deal with prosecutors for community service and counseling to resolve a probation violation from his no-contest plea last year to battery on his then-wife, TV star <strong>Evelyn Lozada<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>McHugh<\/strong>, just elected last August to her first term on the bench, seemed poised to approve the plea deal until <strong>Johnson&#8217;s<\/strong> backside pat of <strong>Swickle <\/strong>triggered a wave of laughter in the court. The judge then angrily said she wouldn&#8217;t sign off and tossed the six-time Pro Bowler formerly known as <strong>Chad Ochocinco<\/strong> in jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI &#8212; The backside pat former NFL star Chad Johnson gave his lawyer in court was not meant as disrespect to a judge and certainly wasn&#8217;t something that warrants a 30-day jail sentence, the attorney said Tuesday in a motion seeking another chance. Adam Swickle asked Broward County Circuit Judge Kathleen McHugh to reconsider the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}