{"id":1188375,"date":"2022-12-20T17:58:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T23:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1188375"},"modified":"2022-12-21T17:46:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T23:46:28","slug":"trial-likely-next-summer-for-wood-county-constable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1188375","title":{"rendered":"Trial likely next summer for Wood County constable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1178918\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/ConstablKelly.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"134\" \/>SHERMAN (KRLD) &#8212; An East Texas constable indicted on federal charges will probably go on trial next summer. In a hearing on Monday, attorneys for Wood County Precinct 2 Constable Kelly Smith asked for a June 2023 trial date. Smith was indicted by a federal grand jury in Sherman last month on a charge of &#8220;deprivation of rights under color of law.&#8221; He is accused of unnecessary use of a police dog while arresting a suspect last July, causing needless injury to the man. KLTV television in Tyler reports Smith&#8217;s attorney says he was simply doing his job of arresting a violent, uncooperative suspect, and that Smith himself was injured in the incident. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHERMAN (KRLD) &#8212; An East Texas constable indicted on federal charges will probably go on trial next summer. In a hearing on Monday, attorneys for Wood County Precinct 2 Constable Kelly Smith asked for a June 2023 trial date. Smith was indicted by a federal grand jury in Sherman last month on a charge of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1188375\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trial likely next summer for Wood County constable<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1188379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/ConstablKelly.png","fifu_image_alt":"Trial likely next summer for Wood County constable","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 01:36:43","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\/11\/ConstablKelly.png","fifu_image_alt":"Trial likely next summer for Wood County constable","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188375","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=1188375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188569,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188375\/revisions\/1188569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1188379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1188375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1188375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1188375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}