July 19, 2013
“…There should be lessons here, lessons about the risks in cases so emotional that they take on a life of their own; lessons for prosecutors who need to use their considerable investigative resources to learn, and not to crusade; lessons about the price in credibility paid by a judicial system in which defendants who are not rich are up against tremendous odds….
“The Little Rascals case…. has wasted many years of many lives. The greater waste will be if nothing is learned from it.”
– From “Case dismissed” (News & Observer editorial, May 28, 1997)