{"id":32229,"date":"2015-10-18T08:03:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T15:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/fairbanks-4-defendant-proclaims-innocence\/"},"modified":"2015-10-18T08:03:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T15:03:22","slug":"fairbanks-4-defendant-proclaims-innocence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/fairbanks-4-defendant-proclaims-innocence\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairbanks 4 defendant proclaims innocence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE \u2014<\/strong> Marvin Roberts, one of the four Alaska Native men convicted in the 1997 murder of a Fairbanks teenager, proclaimed his innocence Saturday in a speech to the Alaska Federation of Natives conference in Anchorage.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts is the only one of the four that has been released on parole in the death of John Hartman. The men, the so-called Fairbanks Four, are seeking post-conviction relief in a civil proceeding being held this month in Fairbanks Superior Court. If successful, all four could have their convictions overturned.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts received a resounding welcome Saturday, when he said exonerating the Fairbanks Four would be a step Alaska Natives need on the path toward equal and fair rights in the justice system.<\/p>\n<p>The Alaska Innocence Project is representing the men in the case. The legal case hinges on the testimony of a former Fairbanks man serving time in a California prison, who claims he was with a different group of men that were responsible for Hartman\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of Roberts\u2019 emotional speech Saturday, Roberts and others at the convention held up four fingers in support of freeing the Fairbanks Four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 Marvin Roberts, one of the four Alaska Native men convicted in the 1997 murder of a Fairbanks teenager, proclaimed his innocence Saturday in a speech to the Alaska Federation of Natives conference in Anchorage. Roberts is the only one of the four that has been released on parole in the death of John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-32229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32229"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=32229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}