{"id":328849,"date":"2026-08-25T00:03:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T00:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328849\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T00:03:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T00:03:05","slug":"manhattan-man-pleads-not-guilty-to-sex-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328849\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan man pleads not guilty to sex crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Manhattan man will face trial in December after pleading not guilty Monday in Riley County District Court to charges of sex crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin Dean Day, 24, is charged with rape, aggravated sexual battery and aggravated battery against a woman born in 1972. His attorney, Cole Hawver, entered not guilty pleas on his behalf after Judge Grant Bannister denied Hawver\u2019s motion for a new preliminary examination hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Bannister\u2019s denial came after Hawver\u2019s motion in a June hearing, during which he alleged lack of due diligence and ineffective counsel by Day\u2019s former lawyer, Aaron Gipson.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themercury.com\/news\/manhattan-man-pleads-not-guilty-to-sex-crimes\/article_66a62e5a-60f7-401f-b214-340fdb05514f.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">To view the full article visit theMercury.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Manhattan man will face trial in December after pleading not guilty Monday in Riley County District Court&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-328849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}