{"id":53846,"date":"2018-08-13T15:19:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T13:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/08\/13\/ben-stokes-jury-asked-to-consider-alex-hales-alleged-role-in-fight\/"},"modified":"2018-08-13T15:19:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T13:19:22","slug":"ben-stokes-jury-asked-to-consider-alex-hales-alleged-role-in-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=53846","title":{"rendered":"Ben Stokes jury asked to consider Alex Hales&#039; alleged role in fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jurors asked if injuries blamed on Stokes could have been caused by England teammateThe jury in the trial of Ben Stokes has been asked to consider if injuries allegedly caused by the cricketer during a fracas in Bristol could have been caused by his international teammate Alex Hales.In his closing speech, Stokes\u2019s counsel, Gordon Cole QC, questioned whether the Durham and England all-rounder was being treated differently because of his high profile, asking the jury at Bristol crown court: \u201cIs this man being focused on because of who he is?\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2018\/aug\/13\/ben-stokes-trial-jury-consider-alex-hales-alleged-role-fight\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Stokes jury asked to consider Alex Hales&#039; alleged role in fight<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jurors asked if injuries blamed on Stokes could have been caused by England teammateThe jury in the trial of Ben Stokes has been asked to consider if injuries allegedly caused by the cricketer during a fracas in Bristol could have been caused by his international teammate Alex Hales.In his closing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}