{"id":78074,"date":"2011-03-11T15:24:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T21:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=78074"},"modified":"2011-03-13T05:35:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T10:35:39","slug":"stephens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=78074","title":{"rendered":"Stephens Pleads Guilty in Teacher-Student Sex Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/2011\/03\/11\/stephens\/stephens_joann-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-78078\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/03\/stephens_joann1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"stephens,_joann\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-78078\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nQUITMAN \u2014 An ex school teacher has pleaded guilty in a Quitman courtroom to one count of improper relationship with a student. All other charges against Jo Ann Stephens, 43, have been dropped. Stephens is the former Mineola teacher who faced charges for an alleged sexual relationship with a student who was 15 at the time. Earlier, the judge dismissed lawyer Thad Davidson\u2019s motion to dismiss the prosecuting lawyer from Stephens\u2019s case. The judge also sanctioned Davidson. He has been fined $1,000. The judge says he ruled against Davidson\u2019s motion because he didn\u2019t have \u201ccivil standing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked why he filed the motion, Davidson said: \u201cI can comment about when an attorney approaches a witness who is adverse and hostile, and pays for that witness\u2019s dinner and drinks\u2026 and then during that dinner lets it be known that a certain type of proposed testimony would \u2014 I don\u2019t think I should say anymore.\u201d Davidson also says he does not regret his decision to file the motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUITMAN \u2014 An ex school teacher has pleaded guilty in a Quitman courtroom to one count of improper relationship with a student. All other charges against Jo Ann Stephens, 43, have been dropped. Stephens is the former Mineola teacher who faced charges for an alleged sexual relationship with a student who was 15 at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=78074\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stephens Pleads Guilty in Teacher-Student Sex Case<\/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-78074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 18:55:19","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\/78074","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=78074"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78386,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78074\/revisions\/78386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}