{"id":1282,"date":"2016-01-07T00:06:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T00:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2016-07-03T15:08:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T15:08:02","slug":"obama-cant-pardon-chandler-but-mccrory-could","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1282","title":{"rendered":"Obama can&#8217;t pardon Chandler \u2013 but McCrory could"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1283\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1283\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/01\/05\/461908092\/over-10-years-two-filmmakers-documented-the-making-of-a-murderer\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1283\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1283\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/160106Avery200.jpg\" alt=\"Steven Avery\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/160106Avery200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/160106Avery200-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steven Avery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Jan. 6, 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany fans of (the hit Netflix documentary)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/01\/05\/461908092\/over-10-years-two-filmmakers-documented-the-making-of-a-murderer\" target=\"_blank\">Making a Murderer<\/a>,\u00a0which sheds light on questionable conduct by prosecutors and police involved in (Steven) Avery\u2019s conviction, view the 53-year-old\u2019s imprisonment as a miscarriage of justice and petitioned President Obama to pardon Avery. The online petitions have garnered more than 200,000 signatures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s just one problem: Avery is a state prisoner convicted under state law. The president only has the constitutional power to pardon or commute sentences in the <em>federal<\/em> system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFans of Making a Murderer who believe Avery deserves clemency should consider signing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/scott-walker-free-steven-avery\" target=\"_blank\">this petition<\/a>\u00a0addressed to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, which has so far been signed by just 1,033 people&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_slatest\/2016\/01\/04\/steven_avery_from_making_a_murderer_can_t_be_pardoned_by_obama.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hey, Making a Murderer Fans: Obama Can\u2019t Pardon Steven Avery<\/a>\u201d\u00a0by Leon Neyfakh at Slate (Jan. 4)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Junior Chandler\u2019s application for gubernatorial clemency was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1213\">rejected in 2014<\/a>\u00a0and isn\u2019t eligible for reconsideration until March 25, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>But those who believe almost 30 years in prison is adequate punishment for a nonexistent crime\u00a0may express their opinion by writing<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Executive Clemency Office<br \/>\n4294 Mail Service Center<br \/>\nRaleigh NC 27699-4294<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1408\">Duke Wrongful Convictions Clinic<\/a>\u00a0continues to investigate Chandler\u2019s case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1707\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/LRDCC20.jpg\" alt=\"LRDCC20\" width=\"132\" height=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 6, 2016 \u201cMany fans of (the hit Netflix documentary)\u00a0Making a Murderer,\u00a0which sheds light on questionable conduct by prosecutors and police involved in (Steven) Avery\u2019s conviction, view the 53-year-old\u2019s imprisonment as a miscarriage of justice and petitioned President Obama to pardon Avery. The online petitions have garnered more than 200,000 signatures. \u201cThere\u2019s just one problem: [&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-1282","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\/1282","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=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2314,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions\/2314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}