{"id":16222,"date":"2017-06-16T11:54:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T15:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/blog\/?p=16222"},"modified":"2017-06-16T11:54:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T15:54:32","slug":"whiddon-faces-life-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=16222","title":{"rendered":"Whiddon faces life in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-06-16-Manden-Whiddon-DOC-2017-photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16217\" src=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-06-16-Manden-Whiddon-DOC-2017-photo.jpg\" alt=\"ID Photo\" width=\"250\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-06-16-Manden-Whiddon-DOC-2017-photo.jpg 250w, https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-06-16-Manden-Whiddon-DOC-2017-photo-244x300.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Manden Whiddon, 23, recanted his previous testimony regarding his and his father\u2019s role in the shooting death of educator Shelly Strickland, he not only violated his agreement with state prosecutors, but also opened himself up to facing a possible life sentence in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Under his agreement with the state\u2014which dismissed first degree murder charges against him and allowed him to plea to a lesser charge of accessory after the fact\u2014Whiddon received a 15-year prison sentence to be followed by 15 years of probation. A condition of that plea was that he testify \u201ctruthfully\u201d against his father, Rodney Whiddon.<\/p>\n<p>But by recanting his testimony less than an hour before opening arguments were to be presented at his father\u2019s trial this week, Whiddon violated that agreement and led the State Attorney\u2019s Office to file a perjury charge against him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo:<\/strong> <em>Manden Whiddon<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Manden Whiddon, 23, recanted his previous testimony regarding his and his father\u2019s role in the shooting death of educator Shelly Strickland, he not only violated his agreement with state prosecutors, but also opened himself up to facing a possible life sentence in prison. Under his agreement with the state\u2014which dismissed first degree murder charges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16223,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16222\/revisions\/16223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}