{"id":274990,"date":"2013-08-28T12:13:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T17:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=274990"},"modified":"2013-08-29T12:19:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T17:19:22","slug":"woman-in-ricin-case-found-competent-for-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=274990","title":{"rendered":"Woman in Ricin Case Found Competent for Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/07\/Shannon-Richardson21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/07\/Shannon-Richardson21-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Shannon Richardson2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-270092\" \/><\/a>TEXARKANA (AP) &#8211; A federal judge says a northeast Texas woman accused of sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is competent to stand trial.   U.S. Magistrate Judge Caroline Craven said Shannon Guess Richardson is mentally competent for a trial during a brief hearing Wednesday in Texarkana.    Richardson is accused of sending the letters to Obama, Bloomberg and a man who heads Bloomberg&#8217;s gun control organization.    Richardson also pleaded not guilty Wednesday to two counts of mailing a threatening communication and one count of making a threat against the President of the United States.    A federal affidavit alleges Richardson called authorities to implicate her husband before she was arrested in June in Mt. Pleasant.    Richardson&#8217;s next court hearing is Sept. 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEXARKANA (AP) &#8211; A federal judge says a northeast Texas woman accused of sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is competent to stand trial. U.S. Magistrate Judge Caroline Craven said Shannon Guess Richardson is mentally competent for a trial during a brief hearing Wednesday in Texarkana. Richardson is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=274990\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Woman in Ricin Case Found Competent for Trial<\/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-274990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-08 10:00:30","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\/274990","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=274990"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274996,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274990\/revisions\/274996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}