The Florida Senate no longer has a convicted felon among its ranks.? An appeals court threw out Senator Gary Siplin?s conviction on grand theft charges.? The Orlando Democrat was accused of illegally using state workers to help his 2004 re-election campaign.? Siplin still could be tried for a misdemeanor.? The ruling also means he may be able to keep his law license and removes any reason for the Senate to strip him of his office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Florida Senate no longer has a convicted felon among its ranks.? An appeals court threw out Senator Gary Siplin?s conviction on grand theft charges.? The Orlando Democrat was accused of illegally using state workers to help his 2004 re-election campaign.? Siplin still could be tried for a misdemeanor.? The ruling also means he may […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}