After months of investigation, the Delaware prosecutors announced Thursday they will not file any criminal charges against suspended NASCAR driver Kurt Busch, according to the Associated Press.
Busch was suspended indefinitely by NASCAR and lost two appeals case to race prior to the Daytona 500 after a Delaware Family Court judge said the Busch almost strangled his then-girlfirend Patricia Driscoll last September at Dover International Speedway. Kent County (Delaware) commissioner David Jones ruled in favor of a no-contact order between Busch and Driscoll. He stated that Busch caused Driscoll "to suffer bruising and substantial and prolonged pain to her head, neck and throat" and that "a reasonable person would have found it threatening or harmful."
The Delaware Department of Justice released the following statement on Thursday:
"The Delaware Department of Justice has carefully reviewed the complaint made of an alleged act of domestic violence involving Kurt Busch in Dover on September 26, 2014, which was reported to the Dover Police Department on Nov. 5, 2014 and investigated. After a thorough consideration of all of the available information about the case, it is determined that the admissible evidence and available witnesses would likely be insufficient to meet the burden of establishing beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Busch committed a crime during the September 26th incident. Likelihood of meeting that high burden of proof is the standard for prosecutors in bringing a case. For this reason, the Department of Justice will not pursue criminal charges in this case."
