{"id":1448,"date":"2015-06-14T18:54:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T18:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2016-01-24T11:33:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T11:33:16","slug":"a-personal-mission-to-have-bob-put-behind-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1448","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A personal mission to have Bob put behind bars&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style361\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1099\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/131014Lamb.jpg\" alt=\"131014Lamb\" width=\"300\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/131014Lamb.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/131014Lamb-186x300.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>June 14, 2015<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Long after Bob Kelly reclaimed his freedom, he continued to fear that prosecutor Nancy Lamb was searching for yet another excuse to send him back to prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">His apprehension was entirely reasonable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">In 1996, less than a year after the North Carolina Court of Appeals overturned Kelly\u2019s conviction in the Little Rascals case, Lamb had had him indicted on a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=939\">new round of sex charges<\/a>, supposedly unrelated and transparently dubious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">According to correspondence I recently happened onto, a lawyer who attended a scheduling conference for Kelly\u2019s upcoming trial was startled by Lamb\u2019s unprofessional demeanor:<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0\u201cIt was very obvious&#8230; that Nancy is on a personal mission to have Bob put behind bars for something. Her voice and her hands were noticeably shaking throughout the meeting and at times she wiped moisture from her eyes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style48\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cI just don\u2019t see how she can go through an entire trial without exposing to the jury this \u2018witch hunt\u2019 mentality that has consumed her&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style48\">For whatever reason \u2013 she claimed, as usual, to be looking out for the \u2018victim\u2019 \u2013 Lamb\u2019s decade-long pursuit of Bob Kelly ended anticlimactically. She dropped the last charges in 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 14, 2015 Long after Bob Kelly reclaimed his freedom, he continued to fear that prosecutor Nancy Lamb was searching for yet another excuse to send him back to prison. His apprehension was entirely reasonable. In 1996, less than a year after the North Carolina Court of Appeals overturned Kelly\u2019s conviction in the Little Rascals [&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-1448","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\/1448","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=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1810,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}