{"id":1272,"date":"2014-07-15T20:16:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T20:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2016-01-23T22:09:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T22:09:22","slug":"that-sorry-judge-should-have-done-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1272","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;That sorry judge should have done something&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style361\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/140705McLelland.jpg\" alt=\"140705McLelland\" width=\"189\" height=\"260\" \/>July 15, 2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cI realize I\u2019m a little flip when I say 80 percent of the evidence is trash, but it is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cI thought sooner or later some editorialist was going to write, \u2018That sorry judge should have done something.\u2019 And yet if I stopped it, it would have been a problem in an appeal&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style360\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 Judge Marsh McLelland, in an interview published April 1, 1992,\u00a0in the Greensboro News &amp; Record, shortly after\u00a0the jury began deliberations in the trial of Bob Kelly<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Given that McLelland had been overseeing the Kelly case for more than 17 months \u2013 and still had Dawn Wilson\u2019s trial ahead of him \u2013 I suppose he deserved to grumble a bit about the tedium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">But what an odd comment about wanting to avoid \u201ca problem in an appeal\u201d \u2013 did he believe only the defense was responsible for producing \u201ctrash\u201d evidence?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 15, 2014 \u201cI realize I\u2019m a little flip when I say 80 percent of the evidence is trash, but it is. \u201cI thought sooner or later some editorialist was going to write, \u2018That sorry judge should have done something.\u2019 And yet if I stopped it, it would have been a problem in an appeal&#8230;.\u201d [&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-1272","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\/1272","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=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1769,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/1769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}