{"id":14210,"date":"2012-05-30T20:57:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T01:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=14210"},"modified":"2012-05-30T20:57:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T01:57:49","slug":"update-judge-drops-charges-against-diane-tran-100000-raised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=14210","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Judge drops charges against Diane Tran; $100,000 raised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Diane-Tran-charges-dropped-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14211\" title=\"Diane Tran-charges dropped logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Diane-Tran-charges-dropped-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Diane-Tran-charges-dropped-logo.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Diane-Tran-charges-dropped-logo-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been <a title=\"Homeless honor student thrown into jail for missing too much school\" href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=14065\" target=\"_blank\">watching the story of Diane Tran<\/a>, you&#8217;ll be happy to know that the 17-year-old has won. Houston television station KHOU reported Wednesday evening that Judge Lanny Moriarty says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khou.com\/news\/Judge-dismisses-contempt-charges-against-truant-honor-student-Diane-Tran-155830795.html\" target=\"_blank\">he will clear her record of all charges<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s good news, but it&#8217;s just as exciting that the efforts to raise money to help her have been successful. The goal was to raise $100,000 and <a href=\"http:\/\/helpdianetran.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">that goal was hit Wednesday afternoon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a victory for Diane Tran, but it&#8217;s also a victory for all of you who shared her story and helped bring about awareness of it. I think it&#8217;s safe to say that Moriarty wouldn&#8217;t have backed down if it hadn&#8217;t been for your pressure.<\/p>\n<p>If you live in his county and still participate in the electoral system, please make sure someone beat this bad judge in the next election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been watching the story of Diane Tran, you&#8217;ll be happy to know that the 17-year-old has won. Houston television station KHOU reported Wednesday evening that Judge Lanny Moriarty says he will clear her record of all charges. That&#8217;s good news, but it&#8217;s just as exciting that the efforts to raise money to help <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=14210\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-3Hc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14210"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14215,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14210\/revisions\/14215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}