{"id":16016,"date":"2015-05-16T11:13:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T15:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=16016"},"modified":"2015-05-18T09:14:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T13:14:49","slug":"state-police-seavey-supporter-attacked-by-morley-backer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=16016","title":{"rendered":"Update: Hogan won&#8217;t press charges in sign attack claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Election2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-16019 size-medium\" style=\"border: 2px solid #000000; margin: 4px;\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Election2015-291x300.jpg\" alt=\"Election2015\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Election2015-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Election2015-900x928.jpg 900w, https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Election2015.jpg 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/a>Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan declined to press charges Sunday in a case reported Saturday by State Police involving an alleged incident involving a district justice candidate supporter allegedly trying to run down with a car an opponent&#8217;s supporter earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to a release from the State Police, &#8220;this <span class=\"s1\">case <\/span>was brought to the attention of the Chester County District Attorney<span class=\"s2\">&#8216;<\/span>s Office, which declined <span class=\"s1\">to\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">approve <\/span>charges against the suspect.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Hogan&#8217;s decision not to pursue charges is the latest chapter in the nastiest District Justice race in recent memory in District 15-4-04 (West Grove and Avondale boroughs, West Marlborough, London Grove, Franklin, London Britain, and New Garden townships) between incumbent Matthew Seavey and challenger Nicole Morley, both Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, State Police reported Saturday they were investigating an incident\u00a0claiming a supporter of\u00a0 Seavey was allegedly nearly run down by a silver or light blue Infinity with a Morley sign on it in Franklin Township, on May 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan declined to press charges Sunday in a case reported Saturday by State Police involving an alleged incident involving a district justice candidate supporter allegedly trying to run down with a car an opponent&#8217;s supporter earlier this month. According to a release from the State Police, &#8220;this case was brought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[6199,6125,6193,6135],"class_list":["post-16016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-15-4-04","tag-district-justice","tag-matt-seavey","tag-nicole-morley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16033,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16016\/revisions\/16033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}