{"id":133294,"date":"2011-10-14T10:59:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T15:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=133294"},"modified":"2011-10-15T17:21:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T22:21:14","slug":"cleared-county-judge-returns-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=133294","title":{"rendered":"Cleared County Judge Returns to Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GILMER (AP) &#8211; A county judge in East Texas will return to his elected duties after being cleared of an official oppression charge over a protester removed from a meeting. The State Commission on Judicial Conduct has lifted the suspension of Upshur County Judge Dean Fowler, allowing him to resume his duties Friday. A visiting judge Wednesday decided prosecutors did not prove their case against Fowler. A charge of abuse of official capacity was dropped. Upshur County commissioners in September 2010 decided to stop hearing public comment. A critic, who wore duct tape over his mouth in protest, was removed from a public meeting last November. A grand jury Dec. 29 indicted Upshur and two other county officials, who still face trial. Commissioners the following day lifted the ban on public comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GILMER (AP) &#8211; A county judge in East Texas will return to his elected duties after being cleared of an official oppression charge over a protester removed from a meeting. The State Commission on Judicial Conduct has lifted the suspension of Upshur County Judge Dean Fowler, allowing him to resume his duties Friday. A visiting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=133294\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cleared County Judge Returns to Work<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 23:46:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133294","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133294"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133614,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133294\/revisions\/133614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}