{"id":1693,"date":"2016-01-20T14:43:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T14:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2016-02-08T22:04:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T22:04:04","slug":"separate-disciplinary-panel-needed-for-prosecutorial-excesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1693","title":{"rendered":"Separate disciplinary panel needed for prosecutorial excesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1694\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1694\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1694\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/160120NO.jpg\" alt=\"Online version of editorial.\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/160120NO.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/160120NO-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Online version of editorial.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Jan. 20, 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Jan. 15 editorial \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/opinion\/editorials\/article54774400.html\" target=\"_blank\">The limits of zeal<\/a>\u2019\u00a0contrasted the penalty given Christine Mumma with the absence of rebuke to prosecutors for the \u2018massive failure\u2019 that kept her client wrongfully imprisoned for more than 36 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not enough simply to point out this shameful disparity. The public embarrassment resulting from the hearing should move the North Carolina State Bar to empower a separate disciplinary panel to deal only with prosecutorial excesses. Such a panel would not lack for business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/article55483655.html\" target=\"_blank\">A Panel for Prosecutors<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0my letter to the editor of the News &amp; Observer\u00a0 (Jan. 19) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1959\">text cache<\/a>)<\/em><\/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. 20, 2016 \u201cThe Jan. 15 editorial \u2018The limits of zeal\u2019\u00a0contrasted the penalty given Christine Mumma with the absence of rebuke to prosecutors for the \u2018massive failure\u2019 that kept her client wrongfully imprisoned for more than 36 years. \u201cIt is not enough simply to point out this shameful disparity. The public embarrassment resulting from the [&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-1693","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\/1693","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=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1961,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions\/1961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}