{"id":1231,"date":"2014-05-27T17:48:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T17:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2016-07-03T20:59:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T20:59:28","slug":"courts-reluctantly-turn-to-little-rascals-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1231","title":{"rendered":"Courts reluctantly turn to Little Rascals DA"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"140527Williams\"May 27, 2014<\/p>\n

\u201cThe state court system says it hired a local defense attorney to prosecute three murder suspects because the current district attorney had conflicts of interest in all three cases and no other prosecutors were available.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe N.C. Administrative Office of the Courts hired H. P. Williams Jr. as a special prosecutor on March 27 after attempts to find a prosecutor from either the state Attorney General\u2019s Office or another district attorney\u2019s office failed….\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 From \u201cWilliams to prosecute 2 more murder cases<\/a>\u201d by William F. West in The (paywalled) Daily Advance (May 24)<\/p>\n

Yes, that\u2019s the same H.P. Williams Jr. who as district attorney prosecuted the Edenton Seven, who as an ostensible expert appeared at\u00a0conferences on \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d<\/a>\u00a0alongside \u201ccult cop\u201d\u00a0Robert J. Simandl<\/a>\u00a0and Civia Tamarkin of\u00a0Believe the Children<\/a>, who as a candidate for reelection received only\u00a041 percent of the vote<\/a>\u00a0and who after returning to private practice\u00a0emphatically declined to discuss the Little Rascals case<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yes, that H.P. Williams Jr….<\/p>\n

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May 27, 2014 \u201cThe state court system says it hired a local defense attorney to prosecute three murder suspects because the current district attorney had conflicts of interest in all three cases and no other prosecutors were available. \u201cThe N.C. Administrative Office of the Courts hired H. P. Williams Jr. as a special prosecutor on […]<\/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-1231","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\/1231","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=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2392,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/2392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}