{"id":529117,"date":"2010-04-15T13:59:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T17:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.76104"},"modified":"2010-04-15T16:24:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T20:24:55","slug":"civil-jury-rules-against-portland-horse-trainer-robert-johnson-formerly-one-of-top-trainers-in-new-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/529117","title":{"rendered":"Civil Jury Rules Against Portland Horse Trainer, Robert Johnson; Formerly One Of Top Trainers In New England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A civil jury in Middletown Superior Court&nbsp;ruled Thursday against Portland horse trainer Robert Johnson, who was accused of assaulting a boy at the horse stables more than 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson had been previously&nbsp;convicted by a jury on two felony counts in criminal court in May 2001 in front of Judge Patrick Clifford, and he served time in prison in a case involving a 14-year-old girl. The 14-year-old, who testified at the trial, had viewed Johnson as a father figure at the riding academy. She had&nbsp;been&nbsp;the top-ranked showhorse rider in Connecticut and ranked among the top 15 in the nation in her age group.<\/p>\n<p>Nine years later, the girl&#8217;s mother testified earlier this month in the latest trial in Middletown against Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>The Hartford Courant&#8217;s veteran court reporter, Alaine Griffin, has details at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/community\/middletown\/hc-equestrian-verdict-0415,0,920172.story\">http:\/\/www.courant.com\/community\/middletown\/hc-equestrian-verdict-0415,0,920172.story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A civil jury in Middletown Superior Court&nbsp;ruled Thursday against Portland horse trainer Robert Johnson, who was accused of assaulting a boy at the horse stables more than 20 years ago. Johnson had been previously&nbsp;convicted by a jury on two felony counts in criminal court in May 2001 in front of Judge Patrick Clifford, and he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4001,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529117","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\/4001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}