{"id":2535,"date":"2024-07-21T21:39:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T01:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/?p=2535"},"modified":"2024-07-23T09:36:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T13:36:54","slug":"breaking-governor-bright-starr-found-guilty-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/breaking-governor-bright-starr-found-guilty-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Bright-Starr Resigns after being found guilty; Legislature moves to impeach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"[2024-CM-222] - State of San Andreas v. Ella Bright-Starr\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SQ0I-Dus3v4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The public poured into the City Hall courtroom on July 21 to see the trial of the century. The sitting Governor, Ella Bright-Starr, was faced with felony charges in an incident that took place on July 3 at her residential home. The prosecution alleged that Ella overstepped her bounds and threatened both the Chief Justice and an Associate Justice with a firearm. An embattled defense tried to claim her innocence, and that the incident was a legitimate case of self-defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a two-and-a-half hour trial, Bright-Starr was found guilty on aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, but not guilty on the charge of false imprisonment and the charge of uttering threats. For the aggravated assault, Governor Bright-Starr was sentenced to 30 months and a fine of $2500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>{Editorial disclosure: Becks Lawson was the author of the state&#8217;s self-defense law, which can be found on: <a href=\"https:\/\/newdayrp.com\/threads\/h-r-112-the-san-andreas-self-defense-act.22375\/\">H.R. 112 &#8211; The San Andreas Self Defense Act.<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gyazo.com\/thumb\/1000\/2a129edff3e6415f0b50c0f5a13ca3f9-png.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo by Harvey Taylor-Mori<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/legislature-reboots-with-all-positions-filled\/\">A press release from newly elected State Representative Maxine Finch <\/a>shared that the new Congress could consider impeachment of the Governor depending on the results of the trial. With the verdict newly delivered, we&#8217;ll have to wait for the Legislature to meet and determine their options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bright-Starr&#8217;s position in office as a felon is unprecedented legal territory for San Andreas; Shout News will update this article should she be removed from office. Her removal would put Quinn Lillegard-Marino in the Governor&#8217;s seat. In a recent conversation with Shout News, Lillegard-Marino confirmed she would accept the role should this happen.<br><br><strong>UPDATE (10:35PM) The Legislature have filed to impeach Bright-Starr.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Impeachment proceedings require their own trial, where Bright-Starr&#8217;s defense will argue her continued suitability for office. Four legislators will need to vote aye after the trial to complete the impeachment process. <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/13PM4DMR2f3BedecgLR6xT2TQUpmliT5uu6t5VDKX0-8\/edit\">You can find their press release here.<\/a><br><br><strong>UPDATE (10:50 PM):<\/strong> <strong>Ella Bright-Starr Resigns and releases a statement after her trial. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Legislature release their own statement on the vote to impeach. In the document she indicates that she is resigning from the Office of Governor and dropped a number of emails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>With this, I am resigning from Governor, I gave it a go and had the odds stacked against me from day one. I thank you to all those that supported me over the few months I got to be here and attempted to clean things up.<\/p>\n<cite>Former Governor Bright-Starr<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Statement-from-the-Governors-desk-Ella-Bright-Starr.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Statement from the Governor&apos;s desk Ella Bright-Starr.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-ea93c65e-75e7-4f07-8958-66d346a58bb5\" href=\"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Statement-from-the-Governors-desk-Ella-Bright-Starr.pdf\">Statement from the Governor&#8217;s desk Ella Bright-Starr<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Statement-from-the-Governors-desk-Ella-Bright-Starr.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-ea93c65e-75e7-4f07-8958-66d346a58bb5\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The public poured into the City Hall courtroom on July 21 to see the trial of the century. The sitting Governor, Ella Bright-Starr, was faced with felony charges in an incident that took place on July 3 at her residential home. The prosecution alleged that Ella overstepped her bounds and threatened both the Chief Justice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[30],"class_list":["post-2535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Becks Lawson","author_link":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/author\/beckslawson\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Add-a-little-bit-of-body-text-38-300x169.png","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Add-a-little-bit-of-body-text-38.png","coauthors":[{"link":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/author\/beckslawson\/","display_name":"Becks Lawson"}],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/category\/news\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">News<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/category\/news\/politics\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Politics<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">News<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Politics<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"9","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 2 years ago","modified":"Updated 2 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 21 July 2024","modified":"Updated on 23 July 2024"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 21 July 2024 9:39 PM","modified":"Updated on 23 July 2024 9:36 AM"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":30,"user_id":2,"is_guest":0,"slug":"beckslawson","display_name":"Becks Lawson","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Untitled-design-2024-02-05T222616.315.png","url2x":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Untitled-design-2024-02-05T222616.315.png"},"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2535"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2558,"href":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions\/2558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2535"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=2535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}