{"id":1085,"date":"2013-09-30T10:47:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T10:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2016-07-04T13:41:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T13:41:38","slug":"what-better-credential-than-little-rascals-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1085","title":{"rendered":"What better credential than Little Rascals debacle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\">Sept. 30, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Death noted: District Attorney\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/outerbanksvoice.com\/2013\/09\/23\/northeastern-north-carolina-d-a-frank-parrish-dies-suddenly\/\" target=\"_blank\">Frank Parrish<\/a>, 64, who succeeded H. P. Williams Jr. in prosecuting the Edenton Seven.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">By the time Parrish took office in 1994, Little Rascals had become almost entirely a Nancy Lamb production. Whatever Parrish actually believed, the prosecutors\u2019 code demanded that he continue to insist that the case was concrete-solid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">But as a growing body of scientific evidence called into question the testimony of child witnesses in ritual-abuse cases, Parrish had to decide how to respond to the overturning of the convictions of Bob Kelly and Dawn Wilson. \u201cI&#8217;ve gotten an awful lot of guidance, none of it solicited,&#8221; he told the Charlotte Observer. \u201c(Research) does not play a part, nor should it. That\u2019s as if because there\u2019s research about the unreliability of eyewitnesses, I should dismiss or not retry an armed robber.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">By 1997 Parrish and Lamb could no longer delay dropping the last Little Rascals charges.\u00a0And who now might succeed Parrish as district attorney? Unfortunately,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyadvance.com\/news\/mccrory-names-lamb-interim-da-2173153#comments\" target=\"_blank\">you won\u2019t be surprised<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 30, 2013 Death noted: District Attorney\u00a0Frank Parrish, 64, who succeeded H. P. Williams Jr. in prosecuting the Edenton Seven. By the time Parrish took office in 1994, Little Rascals had become almost entirely a Nancy Lamb production. Whatever Parrish actually believed, the prosecutors\u2019 code demanded that he continue to insist that the case was [&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-1085","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\/1085","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=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2576,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions\/2576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}