{"id":143003,"date":"2026-03-19T18:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T18:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/143003\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T18:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T18:53:12","slug":"judge-upholds-murder-charge-against-kevin-seelinger-in-woodard-killing-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/143003\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Upholds Murder Charge Against Kevin Seelinger in Woodard Killing | State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Seelinger to Trial.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69bc282275b49.image.png\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Pennsylvania state parole agent is heading to trial for first-degree murder.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Seelinger is accused of shooting parolee Marchello Woodard during a compliance check in July.<\/p>\n<p>At a pre-trial hearing today, the defense challenged the charge, but the judge upheld it after reviewing evidence and testimony.<\/p>\n<p>Seelinger\u2019s trial is tentatively set for October 5th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pennsylvania state parole agent is heading to trial for first-degree murder. Kevin Seelinger is accused of shooting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,31,710,2892,2894,42933,740,42402,742,16640,4636,425,5190,28,2890],"class_list":["post-143003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-crime","tag-crimes","tag-criminal-justice","tag-criminal-law","tag-first-degree-murder","tag-justice","tag-kevin-seelinger","tag-law","tag-legal-procedure","tag-marchello-woodard","tag-parole","tag-parole-agent","tag-pennsylvania","tag-public-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}