{"id":7412,"date":"2013-11-04T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/florida-jury-convicts-23-year-old-in-killing-of-redskins-taylor\/"},"modified":"2013-11-04T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T15:29:00","slug":"florida-jury-convicts-23-year-old-in-killing-of-redskins-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/florida-jury-convicts-23-year-old-in-killing-of-redskins-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida jury convicts 23-year old in killing of Redskins&#8217; Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miami, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; A Florida jury convicted 23-year-old Eric Rivera on Monday in the shooting death of former Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor during a botched robbery in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor, 24, was shot in the upper leg during an attempted robbery of his Miami-area home on Nov. 27, 2007. The bullet wound damaged the femoral artery in Taylor&#8217;s leg, causing significant blood loss.<\/p>\n<p>Rivera, who was 17 at the time of the shooting, was found guilty of second- degree murder and armed burglary with assault. He faces a possible sentence of life in prison, though the death penalty is not an option because he was a teenager at the time of the crime.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the five defendants in the murder case still await trial, while a fourth previously pled guilty and accepted a 29-year sentence in exchange for his cooperation against the others if called to testify.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor was in his fourth NFL season, all with the Redskins, who selected him with the fifth overall pick of the 2004 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; A Florida jury convicted 23-year-old Eric Rivera on Monday in the shooting death of former Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor during a botched robbery in 2007. Taylor, 24, was shot in the upper leg during an attempted robbery of his Miami-area home on Nov. 27, 2007. The bullet wound damaged the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[96,95,94],"class_list":["post-7412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-redskins","tag-washington","tag-washington-redskins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}