Esteemed psychiatrist analyzes Trump – and Junior Chandler

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𝐀𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐣𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟕 "𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐞" 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐀𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲-𝐌𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.
𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐫’𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧….

October 2011

Mark Montgomery describes the case against Junior: "The prosecutor [the same one who would prosecute Bob Kelly] alleged that Junior would drive off his route to a park by a river, strip the children of their clothes, troop them down to the river, put them in a rowboat, commit various sexual acts, put them back on the bus and take them home."

January 2012
When I met Junior, he told me visits from his family had become less frequent over the years, and eventually his wife filed for divorce. “Two life sentences. She couldn’t wait, you know.”

www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org/?p=344

January 2012

In the years since Junior’s conviction, higher courts have cracked down on overreaching testimony by physicians and psychologists. "Expert vouching" is now inadmissible in the absence of physical evidence “diagnostic of” – not just “consistent with” – sexual abuse.

Just how important was expert vouching in imposing Junior’s two consecutive life sentences?

On all charges supported by expert vouching the jury found him guilty. On all charges not supported by expert vouching it found him not guilty.

www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org/?p=359

February 2012
An update from Mark Montgomery on Junior’s appeal:

"There are two prongs to the appeal. First, I am asking the N.C. Supreme Court to simply do the right thing by Junior. The Court said in 2010 that expert testimony like that in Junior’s case is (and was) inadmissible. That being the case, it is fundamentally unfair for Junior to be facing the rest of his life in prison, when many defendants have been freed because this sort of testimony was used against them at trial.

“Second, Junior’s lawyer objected to the testimony but did not raise the issue on appeal. I argued in a motion in Superior Court that the lawyer was ineffective for abandoning the issue. The Superior Court judge denied the motion without a hearing. If the Supreme Court will not itself set aside Junior’s convictions, it should at least require a hearing on trial counsel’s conduct.”

www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org/?p=385

October 2012

“Is this good news or bad?” I emailed Mark Montgomery after wrestling with the N.C. Supreme Court’s ruling. “The worst,” he replied. “We’re out of court.”

[Fortunately, as it turns out, not quite out….]

www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org/?p=657

November 2013
After striking out with the N.C. Supreme Court, Mark Montgomery tried the N.C. Center on Actual Innocence, which "reviewed Junior’s case but could not find anything that would help him. The ‘kids’ were too young at the time to have anything helpful to say now. Of the two retarded adults who rode Junior’s bus (and testified against him), one is dead and the other incompetent.”
On a somewhat more encouraging note, Gov. Beverly Perdue’s office has notified him that Junior’s clemency application is being considered.

www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org/?p=1118

January 2013
Discouraging words from North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services.

www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org/?p=782

February 2013

A letter from Junior Chandler after he learns the governor has left office without responding to his clemency application:

“All of the high profile and high publicity cases in the last 20 years – nearly every one of those people are home…. Except for me and I am still in prison…. April 15, 2013, will be 26 years.

“I know it’s extremely hard to get help to prove my innocence when there isn’t a crime committed to begin with.

www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org/?p=803

April 2014
A comparison of Junior’s sentence with those served for other offenses.
www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org/?p=1218

June 2014

Dr. Allen Frances, professor emeritus of psychiatry at Duke Medical School, makes a powerful case for Junior in a column in the Raleigh News & Observer:

“Andrew Junior Chandler has been unjustly incarcerated in a North Carolina prison for 27 years, charged with a crime that almost surely never happened….

“Let’s hope that Gov. Pat McCrory will review the mistaken judgment of his misnamed ‘clemency office’ and correct this stain on the reputation of North Carolina justice.”

August 2014

Exciting news about a Saluda case painfully similar to Junior’s….

"Convicted of sexually abusing his three children in a 1994 trial charged with allegations of Satanism, [Michael Alan] Parker was freed after Superior Court Judge Marvin Pope ruled Monday that the medical evidence would no longer be interpreted as proof of sexual abuse. Pope vacated Parker’s sentence and dismissed the charges against him…. "

www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org/?p=1292

September 2014

“Duke law clinic to review 1987 conviction,” reports the Asheville Citizen-Times.

Publication in the Asheville paper is especially welcome for Junior’s friends, family and other supporters in nearby Madison County, who likely haven’t seen the case mentioned in print since his conviction in 1987.

www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org/?p=1319

March 2015

Quite a day. First a good news / bad news seminar at Duke Law School:

If you’re being wrongfully prosecuted in 2015, the standards for child sexual abuse have become dramatically more specific and sophisticated. If, however, you — like Junior Chandler — were wrongfully prosecuted in 1987, then the fruits of that scientific progress remain maddeningly out of reach.

Waiting for me when I returned home from Durham Friday was a letter from Junior:

“April 15 will be 28 yrs – nearly half my life, all because of lies when I did no crime. It’s a shame & disgrace to the whole N.C. justice system, not only to do this but never to be willing to say they were wrong….”

www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org/?p=1399

April 2015
Actually visiting and walking around the supposed crime scenes in Madison County, which are completely open to neighbors and passersby, only reinforces my impression: The allegations against Junior are simply inconceivable.
www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org/?p=1408

November 2015

The North Carolina Department of Correction has its own Sexual Offender Accountability and Responsibility program. “Through psycho-educational modules, behavior techniques and empathy training,” its website says, “S.O.A.R. participants learn that sexually abusive behavior is both controllable and manageable.”

Junior Chandler recalls having been invited to participate and perhaps receive some benefits, but …. “They said I had to admit I was guilty. I told them I couldn’t do that, because I hadn’t done anything…. What would you do?”
www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org/?p=1535

April 2021
The Everyday Injustice podcast explores Junior’s case with Theresa Newman, Jim Coleman and their Duke law students.

www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org/?p=3348
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Will a court pay attention? – Little Rascals Day Care Case

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Posted on by April 13, 2021 If I had harbored even an iota of doubt about Junior Chandler’s innocence, it would’ve been vaporized by the podcast episode below. Most dramatically, the Duke Wrongful…

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It was 10 years ago this month that I first wrote about Junior Chandler. Mark Montgomery, Bob Kelly’s appellate lawyer in the Little Rascals Day Care case, had recently mentioned to me the stark and undeniable parallels between the "satanic ritual abuse" allegations against Bob and those against Junior, a day-care bus driver in Madison County who had been imprisoned since 1987 — yes, even before the Little Rascals case reared its monstrous head.
Today Junior remains in Avery-Mitchell Correctional Institution in Spruce Pine, 64 years old and well into his 35th year of two consecutive life sentences.

Here’s where Junior Chandler’s case stands today:

In 2019 Junior, represented by the Wrongful Convictions Clinic at Duke Law School, filed a motion seeking an evidentiary hearing on seven claims.

Key among them:

— The purported medical evidence on which his prosecution was based has since been rejected by the medical community.

— Though constitutionally required, prosecutors failed to disclose evidence essential to Junior’s defense.

In March, Gary M. Gavenus, senior resident Superior Court judge, rejected Junior’s first five claims but ordered an evidentiary hearing on the undisclosed evidence claim and a related claim that some of the prosecutors’ expert witnesses testified falsely.

At this point, Gavenus is limiting the hearing to whether Junior could have or should have raised the claims earlier. Under the law, no matter how meritorious your claims, they can sometimes be “procedurally barred” for being raised too late — a roadblock that courts seemed all too eager to invoke during Junior’s original run of appeals.

If the judge rules the claims are not procedurally barred, he will order a full evidentiary hearing, at which Junior will present evidence to show the charges against him were unfounded and his trial was unfair.

𝐓𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰: 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐫’𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬.
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John Grisham on Judges, Innocence and the Judgments He Ignores

"Once I got into researching ‘The Innocent Man,’ I just realized how many innocent people are actually in prison, and there are thousands of them, tens of thousands of them…." www.nytimes.com/2021/10/17/books/john-grisham-judges-list.html
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The best-selling author, whose new book, “The Judge’s List,” is about a murderous member of the bench, talks about the Supreme Court, wrongful convictions and what it means to be “review-proof…

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DNA to the rescue? We can hope….

Imprisoned, and long claiming innocence, NC man alleges mistreatment at NC prison :: WRAL.com

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“My story will never change,” Leroy Spruill says. “I’ll go to my grave with this.”

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Who was the prosecutor? Mike Easly? The same Gov Mike Easly who was convicted on felony campaign finance violations? Asking for a friend……

𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐑𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐍𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐋𝐚𝐦𝐛 𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐁𝐨𝐛 𝐊𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐲, 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐒𝐮𝐧 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥.
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐦𝐲 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 "𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧: 𝐍𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐲’𝐬 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞" (𝐎𝐜𝐭. 𝟕).
The role of prosecutor Nancy Lamb in the indeed "infamous" Little Rascals Day Care case needs further explanation. For Lamb’s name to be attached to a child advocacy center is bizarre and appalling.
According to Chris Jernigan, executive director of Southmountain Children and Family Services, “Nancy has since done a lot of training on all the mistakes they made and how to improve things.”
The North Carolina Court of Appeals pointed out numerous crucial mistakes made in the prosecution of Bob Kelly and Dawn Wilson — including the withholding of exculpatory evidence — but Lamb has yet to acknowledge any of them. In fact, she continued for years to insist on Kelly’s guilt and even traveled the country sharing "The Ingredients of Two Successful Prosecutions."
Jernigan’s concerns about interviewing children about alleged abuse contrast starkly with best practices developed during the "satanic ritual abuse" day-care panic of the 1980s and early ’90s. “What we know from the old way of doing things," he says, "is kids would have to tell their story so many times that sometimes they would get to the point where they would say ‘It never happened’ or ‘I don’t want to talk about it’ and just shut down completely.’ ” He has it backwards: In reality, researchers have found that kids tend to tell the truth *at first*, before eventually succumbing to the confirmation bias of prosecutors’ ill-trained therapists.
If Nancy Lamb has truly learned from her mistakes, she should be lobbying the State of North Carolina to issue the Edenton Seven a statement of innocence similar to the one given the defendants in the Duke lacrosse case. Unsurprisingly, however, neither Lamb nor her namesake house seems interested in finding facts, only in putting defendants in jail.

Child neglect in Craven: Nancy's House providing effective change

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Nancy’s House, a children’s advocacy center, recently opened in New Bern. The center works to limit the trauma faced by child abuse victims.

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Gang who kidnapped child at knifepoint in satanic panic is jailed

Another reminder that we have no monopoly on insanity on this side of the pond…. www.newsweek.com/gang-abduction-satanic-abuse-claim-jailed-wales-1634582
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A judge in Wales said the six conspirators had caused “significant, long-lasting and potentially permanent psychological harm” to their young victim.

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