{"id":1160473,"date":"2022-09-07T06:43:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T11:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1160473"},"modified":"2022-09-08T10:50:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T15:50:51","slug":"grand-jury-not-enough-evidence-to-indict-cna-accused-of-slapping-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1160473","title":{"rendered":"Grand jury: Not enough evidence to indict CNA accused of slapping patient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1160474\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/09\/nurselav-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>TYLER &#8212; A Smith County grand jury did not see that there was enough evidence to prosecute a former UT Health Science Center certified nursing assistant who was accused of hitting a schizophrenia patient, according to the District Attorney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office. Our news partner KETK reports Lavinya Warren was arrested on Feb. 5, 2021 and charged with injury to the elderly with intent to cause bodily injury for an incident that officials said happened on Feb. 1, 2021. A representative from the district attorney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office said that after being presented with information, the grand jury determined in October 2021 that there was no probable cause for a crime. The DA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office said that prior to this ruling by a grand jury, surveillance video appeared to be missing, but was then recovered.<!--more--> According to Smith County judicial records, the case was marked as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153DA decline to prosecute,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and a representative from the DA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office referred to the case as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153no billed,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d meaning that the case will not go past this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; A Smith County grand jury did not see that there was enough evidence to prosecute a former UT Health Science Center certified nursing assistant who was accused of hitting a schizophrenia patient, according to the District Attorney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office. Our news partner KETK reports Lavinya Warren was arrested on Feb. 5, 2021 and charged &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1160473\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grand jury: Not enough evidence to indict CNA accused of slapping patient<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1160476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/09\/nurselav-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Grand jury: Not enough evidence to indict CNA accused of slapping patient","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 20:01:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/09\/nurselav-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Grand jury: Not enough evidence to indict CNA accused of slapping patient","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1160473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1160547,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160473\/revisions\/1160547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1160476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1160473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1160473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1160473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}