{"id":1070,"date":"2013-09-13T10:23:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T10:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2016-01-04T10:26:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T10:26:13","slug":"board-couldnt-see-betsy-kelly-minus-her-publicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1070","title":{"rendered":"Board couldn&#8217;t see Betsy Kelly &#8216;minus her publicity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\">Sept. 13, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cI am urging you to treat Elizabeth Kelly as you would treat anyone else with the same case file.\u00a0 I am asking you to demonstrate that we are all \u2018equal under the law.\u2019\u00a0 Any other inmate with the same sentence and clean record would have been eligible for parole the minute she walked through the gates of the prison&#8230;. I am appealing to you not to withhold that which she would otherwise likely receive &#8212; minus her publicity, minus the rhetoric of politicians.\u00a0 I am imploring you not to deal more strictly with her than with others simply because she is Elizabeth Kelly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From a letter to the North Carolina Parole Commission\u00a0<\/em><em>by Jane W. Duffield of Raleigh\u00a0 (April 5, 1994)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">The Parole Commission proved unable or unwilling to consider Betsy Kelly\u2019s case \u201cminus her publicity, minus the rhetoric of politicians.\u201d Bill Hart, vengeful over her unwavering insistence that she was innocent, reneged on a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1005\" target=\"_blank\">plea agreement<\/a>\u00a0not to contest her release, and the Parole Commission obediently sent her back for seven more months of wrongful imprisonment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 13, 2013 \u201cI am urging you to treat Elizabeth Kelly as you would treat anyone else with the same case file.\u00a0 I am asking you to demonstrate that we are all \u2018equal under the law.\u2019\u00a0 Any other inmate with the same sentence and clean record would have been eligible for parole the minute she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}