{"id":375351,"date":"2010-02-26T16:10:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T21:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=23459"},"modified":"2010-02-26T16:10:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T21:10:28","slug":"%e2%80%98toyota-defense%e2%80%99-might-free-jailed-minnesota-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/375351","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Toyota Defense\u2019 Might Free Jailed Minnesota Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 229px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" style=\"margin-left: 20px;margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/a\/p\/ap\/20100225\/capt.4820e025bb8143b89af33800d2535c34.toyota_fatal_crash_mp101.jpg?x=400&#38;y=280&#38;q=85&#38;sig=OQM13edibBFgFF49ajGW2A--\" alt=\"Koua Fong Lee\" width=\"219\" height=\"153\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Koua Fong Lee<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>STEVE KARNOWSKI writes on the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100225\/ap_on_bi_ge\/us_toyota_fatal_crash\">AP via Yahoo News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>LINO LAKES, Minn. \u2013<\/strong> Ever since his 1996 Toyota Camry shot up an interstate ramp, plowing into the back of an Oldsmobile in a horrific crash that killed three people, Koua Fong Lee insisted he had done everything he could to stop the car.<\/p>\n<p>A jury didn&#8217;t believe him, and a judge sentenced him to eight years in prison. But now, new revelations of safety problems with Toyotas have Lee pressing to get his case reopened and his freedom restored. Relatives of the victims \u2014 who condemned Lee at his sentencing three years ago \u2014 now believe he is innocent and are planning to sue Toyota. The prosecutor who sent Lee to prison said he thinks the case merits another look.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Koua Fong Lee STEVE KARNOWSKI writes on the AP via Yahoo News: LINO LAKES, Minn. \u2013 Ever since his 1996 Toyota Camry shot up an interstate ramp, plowing into the back of an Oldsmobile in a horrific crash that killed three people, Koua Fong Lee insisted he had done everything he could to stop the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}