{"id":54448,"date":"2014-09-16T14:55:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T19:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=54448"},"modified":"2014-09-16T14:55:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T19:55:19","slug":"grand-jury-to-hear-stewart-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=54448","title":{"rendered":"Grand jury to hear Stewart evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ward-stewart2b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-52090\" alt=\"ward stewart2b\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ward-stewart2b-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ward-stewart2b-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ward-stewart2b-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ward-stewart2b.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. (AP) &#8211; A grand jury will decide whether NASCAR driver Tony Stewart will be charged in the August death of a fellow driver at a sprint car race in upstate New York.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ontario County District Attorney Michael Tantillo said Tuesday that after reviewing evidence collected by sheriff&#8217;s investigators, he has decided to present it to a grand jury. Tantillo could have determined there was not enough evidence to support charges and dropped the case.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stewart&#8217;s car struck and killed Kevin Ward Jr. at a dirt-track race in Canandaigua on Aug. 9.\u00a0 The 20-year-old had climbed from his car after it had spun while racing alongside Stewart.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stewart issued a statement saying he looks forward to the process being completed and will continue to cooperate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. (AP) &#8211; A grand jury will decide whether NASCAR driver Tony Stewart will be charged in the August death of a fellow driver at a sprint car race in upstate New York. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ontario County District Attorney Michael Tantillo said Tuesday that after reviewing evidence collected by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":52079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54454,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54448\/revisions\/54454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}