{"id":246137,"date":"2026-05-14T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/invasion-of-privacy-trial-for-former-la-plata-county-jail-commander-postponed\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:40:11","slug":"invasion-of-privacy-trial-for-former-la-plata-county-jail-commander-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/invasion-of-privacy-trial-for-former-la-plata-county-jail-commander-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"Invasion of privacy trial for former La Plata County Jail commander postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/articles\/invasion-of-privacy-trial-for-former-la-plata-county-jail-commander-postponed\/\">Invasion of privacy trial for former La Plata County Jail commander postponed<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/articles\/invasion-of-privacy-trial-for-former-la-plata-county-jail-commander-postponed\/\">https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/articles\/invasion-of-privacy-trial-for-former-la-plata-county-jail-commander-postponed\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-14 16:58:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.durangoherald.com\">www.durangoherald.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scheduling change upsetting for some alleged victims<\/p>\n<p>Edward Aber, former commander of the La Plata County Jail, on Dec. 13, 2022. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file)<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d60b9481-b085-5aa2-a591-fad5612a8c45&#038;function=original&#038;type=preview\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Former La Plata County Jail Cmdr. Edward Aber was scheduled to stand trial in early August on misconduct and invasion of privacy charges. During a Thursday hearing, the defense and the prosecution agreed to push the trial to November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The change was made due to scheduling conflicts and the courts being closed for a half-day during the original trial week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">During Thursday\u2019s hearing, Judge Richard Schmittel said he \u201chas to take some responsibility\u201d for the change of plans. He did not realize the courts would be closed half the day Aug. 11, which would have been the second day of the original weeklong trial, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Schmittel said the case involves \u201ca lot of moving parts\u201d and it was best to reschedule the trial rather than try to adjust around the court closure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cI recognize there are a lot of emotions in this case &#8230; and it should not be rushed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The trial is now scheduled for the week of Nov. 2 \u2013 nearly three months later than the original date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Rescheduling was an arduous process for the defense and the prosecution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">At least four different rescheduling options \u2013 all of which would have been sooner than the date decided upon \u2013 were floated before the November date was chosen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">It&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/articles\/invasion-of-privacy-trial-for-former-la-plata-county-jail-commander-postponed\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invasion of privacy trial for former La Plata County Jail commander postponed https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/articles\/invasion-of-privacy-trial-for-former-la-plata-county-jail-commander-postponed\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":246138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d60b9481-b085-5aa2-a591-fad5612a8c45&function=fit&type=preview","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246139,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246137\/revisions\/246139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}