{"id":574912,"date":"2021-06-27T13:20:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T17:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=574912"},"modified":"2021-06-27T13:20:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T17:20:59","slug":"charges-dropped-against-suspect-in-death-of-ariz-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/charges-dropped-against-suspect-in-death-of-ariz-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Charges dropped against suspect in death of Ariz. officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcharges-dropped-against-suspect-in-death-of-ariz-officer%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=574912&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2437661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2437661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officer Clayton Townsend is photographed. (Photo via Officer Down Memorial Page)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 10:10 AM PT \u2013 Sunday, June 27, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Charges have been dropped against a man accused of killing a police officer while texting and driving in Arizona. Prosecutors announced the verdict on Friday and cited new evidence made it difficult to convict 42-year-old Jerry Sanstead with reckless manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>Sanstead was accused of fatally striking officer Clayton Townsend after allegedly veering across multiple lanes while texting his wife in 2019. Sanstead was charged in November of 2020, but the charges were dropped after a key witness could not be reached for testimony and a medical expert deemed a seizure as a possible cause of the crash.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">News Release: Maricopa County Attorney\u2019s Office Files Motion to Dismiss in Case Against Jerry Sanstead, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tLvxbBgS8F\">https:\/\/t.co\/tLvxbBgS8F<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WbRyinNi26\">pic.twitter.com\/WbRyinNi26<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MaricopaCounty Atty. (@marcoattorney) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcoattorney\/status\/1408536869625806852?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere has been a lot of thought and research into this decision,\u201d Jennifer Liewer explained. \u201cWe know there\u2019s an entire community and a police force in addition to the family and friends of Officer Townsend who are going to feel this loss forever, but we have to do what we believe is ethically appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Maricopa County Attorney\u2019s Office went on to announce a judge will now have to sign off on the proposal to dismiss.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/metro-detroit-area-flooded-after-intense-storms-drop-heavy-rain\/\">Metro Detroit Area Flooded After Intense Storms Drop Heavy Rain<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officer Clayton Townsend is photographed. (Photo via Officer Down Memorial Page) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 10:10 AM PT \u2013 Sunday, June 27, 2021 Charges have been dropped against a man accused of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2281459,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}