{"id":1086861,"date":"2022-01-06T15:29:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T21:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1086861"},"modified":"2022-01-07T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T21:29:00","slug":"smith-county-das-office-recuses-itself-from-prosecuting-killer-nurse-attorney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1086861","title":{"rendered":"Smith County DA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office recuses itself from prosecuting &#8220;killer nurse&#8221; attorney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/01\/phayes-159x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"159\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1086867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/01\/phayes-159x200.png 159w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/01\/phayes-279x350.png 279w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/01\/phayes.png 301w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 159px) 100vw, 159px\" \/>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Smith County District Attorney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office is recusing itself from prosecuting &#8220;killer nurse&#8221; defense attorney Phillip Hayes, who was allegedly caught trying to solicit a prostitute. According to our news partner KETK, DA Jacob Putman says his office didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to create a conflict of interest. Upshur County District Attorney Billy Byrd was appointed to the case instead. Hayes worked as the lead defense attorney for William Davis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 capital murder trial in Tyler. Davis was found guilty and sentenced to death for killing patients at the hospital where he worked as a nurse. Hayes was allegedly caught trying to solicit a prostitute during the month-long trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Smith County District Attorney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office is recusing itself from prosecuting &#8220;killer nurse&#8221; defense attorney Phillip Hayes, who was allegedly caught trying to solicit a prostitute. According to our news partner KETK, DA Jacob Putman says his office didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to create a conflict of interest. Upshur County District Attorney Billy Byrd was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1086861\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County DA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office recuses itself from prosecuting &#8220;killer nurse&#8221; attorney<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1086870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/01\/phayes-159x200.png","fifu_image_alt":"Smith County DA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office recuses itself from prosecuting \u00e2\u20ac\u0153killer nurse\u00e2\u20ac\u009d attorney","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 18:45:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/01\/phayes-159x200.png","fifu_image_alt":"Smith County DA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office recuses itself from prosecuting \u00e2\u20ac\u0153killer nurse\u00e2\u20ac\u009d attorney","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1086861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1127292,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086861\/revisions\/1127292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1086870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1086861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1086861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1086861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}