{"id":20782,"date":"2022-03-11T13:00:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=20782"},"modified":"2022-03-11T13:00:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T18:00:43","slug":"former-lakeland-city-commissioner-michael-dunn-pleads-guilty-to-manslaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/03\/11\/former-lakeland-city-commissioner-michael-dunn-pleads-guilty-to-manslaughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Lakeland City Commissioner Michael Dunn pleads guilty to manslaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Days before his second-degree murder trial was set to begin, former\u00a0Lakeland City Commissioner Michael Dunn pleaded\u00a0guilty\u00a0to manslaughter with a firearm in a deal with prosecutors that avoids a mandatory minimum sentence.<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20783 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Former-Lakeland-City-Commissioner-Michael-Dunn.jpg?resize=274%2C184&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"184\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The conviction for manslaughter with a firearm can bring up to 30 years in prison, but the judge would have the discretion to impose less. In this plea agreement, the defense asked for a sentence no longer than 10 years, while prosecutors will seek up to 17.5 years.<\/p>\n<p>Sentencing will take place on May 23. Dunn will remain free on bond until that time and during the evidentiary hearing under the same release conditions, he&#8217;s been under since his case began.<\/p>\n<p>See more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theledger.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2022\/03\/11\/michael-dunn-pleads-guilty-manslaughter-deal-prosecutors\/6989221001\/\">Ledger<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days before his second-degree murder trial was set to begin, former\u00a0Lakeland City Commissioner Michael Dunn pleaded\u00a0guilty\u00a0to manslaughter with a firearm in a deal with prosecutors that avoids a mandatory minimum&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[2513],"class_list":["post-20782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-former-lakeland-city-commissioner-michael-dunn-pleads-guilty-to-manslaughter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}