{"id":148,"date":"2015-11-27T11:33:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T11:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=148"},"modified":"2015-12-29T14:51:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T14:51:24","slug":"in-guilford-county-a-da-who-paid-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"In Guilford County, a DA who paid attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_320\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-320\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/151127Henderson1.jpg\" alt=\"J. Douglas Henderson\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/151127Henderson1.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/151127Henderson1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">J. Douglas Henderson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"style361\" style=\"text-align: right;\">Nov. 27, 2015<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cWe cannot bring criminal prosecutions based upon what we think the facts might be, out of our love for animals or in response to public pressure. Down that road lies the wreckage of the Duke lacrosse case, the Little Rascals Day Care case\u00a0and other prosecutorial misadventures&#8230;..\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style360\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 District Attorney J. Douglas Henderson,\u00a0explaining\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wxii12.com\/news\/prosecutors-dismiss-sheriffs-charges-against-former-guilford-county-animal-shelter-director\/36654024\" target=\"_blank\"><em>his dismissal<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0of animal cruelty\u00a0charges against the former director of\u00a0the Guilford County (N.C.) Animal Shelter<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">An animal shelter isn\u2019t a day care center, euthanasia isn\u2019t \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d and Henderson\u2019s decision hasn\u2019t met with unanimous community support, but how encouraging to see a DA who seems to have learned appropriate lessons from two of the state\u2019s most notorious \u201cprosecutorial misadventures.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov. 27, 2015 \u201cWe cannot bring criminal prosecutions based upon what we think the facts might be, out of our love for animals or in response to public pressure. Down that road lies the wreckage of the Duke lacrosse case, the Little Rascals Day Care case\u00a0and other prosecutorial misadventures&#8230;..\u201d \u2013 District Attorney J. Douglas Henderson,\u00a0explaining\u00a0his [&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-148","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\/148","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=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}