{"id":13132,"date":"2012-03-01T15:57:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T20:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13132"},"modified":"2012-03-01T15:57:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T20:57:35","slug":"jennifer-hudson-to-testify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13132","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Hudson To Testify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar winner <strong>Jennifer Hudson<\/strong> is on the witness list for the upcoming trial of a man accused of killing her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutors haven&#8217;t yet disclosed whether <strong>Hudson<\/strong> will actually testify at<strong> William Balfour&#8217;s<\/strong> trial, which is slated to begin April 9.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Balfour<\/strong> was the estranged husband of Hudson&#8217;s sister,<strong> Julia<\/strong>. <strong>Hudson&#8217;s<\/strong> mother and brother were found dead in the family&#8217;s home on Chicago&#8217;s South Side in 2008. Her nephew&#8217;s body was found days later in a vehicle on the city&#8217;s West Side.<\/p>\n<p>A court filing by prosecutors last week contains detectives&#8217; reports from interviews with <strong>Hudson<\/strong> after the deaths. According to the filing, <strong>Hudson<\/strong> told investigators she&#8217;d known<strong> Balfour<\/strong> since childhood and had advised her sister against marrying him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson is on the witness list for the upcoming trial of a man accused of killing her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew. The prosecutors haven&#8217;t yet disclosed whether Hudson will actually testify at William Balfour&#8217;s trial, which is slated to begin April 9. Balfour was the estranged husband of Hudson&#8217;s sister, Julia. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}