{"id":212494,"date":"2012-09-13T12:12:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T17:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=212494"},"modified":"2012-09-14T12:48:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T17:48:12","slug":"judge-refuses-to-dismiss-charges-against-rust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=212494","title":{"rendered":"Judge Refuses to Dismiss Charges against Rust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=212495\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-212495\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/09\/dustinrustcourt-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"dustinrustcourt\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-212495\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2014 State District Judge Jack Skeen of Tyler has declined to dismiss charges against former Smith County Precinct 3 Constable Dustin Rust.  According to KETK, Rust appeared in court Thursday morning for a hearing about his April indictment.  Rust&#8217;s attorney filed a motion to dismiss all three cases against him, two felonies and one misdemeanor. <\/p>\n<p>A courtroom reporter says the prosecution gave a written statement and signed agreement by Rust to Judge Skeen. In the document, the constable agreed to one year&#8217;s probation, admitting guilt, and paying about $7,600 in restitution.  The prosecution also requested a pretrial diversion, which is an option of taking Rust back to court if he fails to meet those requirements, and for a dismissal. However, Skeen denied all motions made by the state.  The judge has set the trial to begin Monday, October 1.<\/p>\n<p>Controversy has swirled around Rust ever since he was indicted for misuse of county property. He is accused of using his deputies for a private security detail in Smith County neighborhoods.  Last week, special prosecutor Lance Larison made a motion to dismiss the charges.  Rust lost his race for Constable to Jim Blackmon and stepped down in early August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 State District Judge Jack Skeen of Tyler has declined to dismiss charges against former Smith County Precinct 3 Constable Dustin Rust. According to KETK, Rust appeared in court Thursday morning for a hearing about his April indictment. Rust&#8217;s attorney filed a motion to dismiss all three cases against him, two felonies and one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=212494\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Judge Refuses to Dismiss Charges against Rust<\/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-212494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 16:33:24","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\/212494","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=212494"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212673,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212494\/revisions\/212673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}