{"id":1105,"date":"2013-10-18T15:01:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T15:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2016-01-17T16:13:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T16:13:54","slug":"nancy-lamb-da-its-up-to-gov-mccrory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1105","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Lamb, DA? It&#8217;s up to Gov. McCrory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style361\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1106\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/131018McCrory.jpg\" alt=\"131018McCrory\" width=\"260\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/131018McCrory.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/131018McCrory-187x300.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>Oct. 18, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Because the Elizabeth City Daily Advance rejected my\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1098\">letter to the editor<\/a>\u00a0questioning its support of Nancy Lamb for district attorney, I\u2019ve been posting comments in the online Advance, these two most recently:<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Oct. 2<\/strong>: \u201cIt was no \u2018technicality\u2019 that led the North Carolina Court of Appeals to overturn the conviction of Bob Kelly (and of Dawn Wilson). The court focused on three glaring reversible errors in Kelly&#8217;s trial and implied it could have cited many more had that been needed. You can read the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nc.findacase.com\/research\/wfrmDocViewer.aspx\/xq\/fac.19950502_0040494.NC.htm\/qx\" target=\"_blank\">decision here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cLittle Rascals was only one of a wave of \u2018ritual abuse\u2019 day-care prosecutions during the &#8217;80s and &#8217;90s \u2013 virtually all of them based on hysteria rather than facts. You can\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Day_care_sex_abuse_hysteria\" target=\"_blank\">read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cThank God, \u2018Frontline\u2019 put a national spotlight on the shameful abuse H.P. Williams, Bill Hart and Nancy Lamb \u2013 and their team of ill-trained therapists \u2013 were inflicting on the Edenton Seven, but the miscarriage of justice was clear even without it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Oct. 12<\/strong>: \u201cUnfortunately, the most salient example of Nancy Lamb&#8217;s \u2018ability to think for herself\u2019 was her irrational, hysterical, unprofessional prosecution of the Little Rascals Day Care case. It would be easier to forgive her role in perpetuating the myth of \u2018satanic ritual abuse\u2019 in day cares were she finally able to admit her mistake and to apologize for crushing the lives of seven innocent defendants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">After the death of District Attorney Frank Parrish, Gov. McCrory gave Lamb a 60-day appointment as interim DA. He is now deciding who should complete Parrish\u2019s term. Next election for DA will be in November 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct. 18, 2013 Because the Elizabeth City Daily Advance rejected my\u00a0letter to the editor\u00a0questioning its support of Nancy Lamb for district attorney, I\u2019ve been posting comments in the online Advance, these two most recently: Oct. 2: \u201cIt was no \u2018technicality\u2019 that led the North Carolina Court of Appeals to overturn the conviction of Bob Kelly [&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-1105","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\/1105","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=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1683,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/1683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}