{"id":289625,"date":"2014-01-24T13:18:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T19:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=289625"},"modified":"2014-01-26T16:35:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T22:35:02","slug":"judge-approves-new-venue-in-case-of-slain-prosecutors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=289625","title":{"rendered":"Judge Approves New Venue in Case of Slain Prosecutors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/07\/Eric-Williams.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/07\/Eric-Williams-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Williams\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-270545\" \/><\/a>DALLAS (AP) &#8211; A judge has approved a motion to move the death penalty trial of a man accused of killing three people, including two prosecutors, to another North Texas county.   Judge Michael Snipes on Friday okayed the request by defense attorneys for 46-year-old Eric Williams. Authorities say he fatally shot Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife Cynthia in March, and Kaufman assistant prosecutor Mark Hasse last January.   Williams&#8217; trial is scheduled to begin in October in Rockwall County, northeast of Dallas. Prosecutors say the killings were to avenge the former justice of the peace&#8217;s conviction on theft charges that cost him his office and law license.  Authorities say Williams&#8217; wife, Kim Williams, has confessed, naming her husband as the shooter. She&#8217;s also charged with capital murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS (AP) &#8211; A judge has approved a motion to move the death penalty trial of a man accused of killing three people, including two prosecutors, to another North Texas county. Judge Michael Snipes on Friday okayed the request by defense attorneys for 46-year-old Eric Williams. Authorities say he fatally shot Kaufman County District Attorney &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=289625\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Judge Approves New Venue in Case of Slain Prosecutors<\/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-289625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 02:08:06","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\/289625","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=289625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289626,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289625\/revisions\/289626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}