{"id":2033,"date":"2016-03-13T19:44:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T19:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2016-03-13T19:53:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T19:53:32","slug":"tortured-by-timidity-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2033","title":{"rendered":"Tortured by timidity in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2034\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2034\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2034\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160313Kellers.jpg\" alt=\"Dan, left, and Fran Keller\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160313Kellers.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160313Kellers-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2034\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan, left, and Fran Keller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">March 13, 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFran and Dan Keller have been released from a Texas prison after 21 years, yet still have little freedom of movement or circumstance, or even quality of life. Their 1992 conviction on multiple counts of \u2018sexual assault of a minor\u2019 \u2013 in the now notorious Fran&#8217;s Day Care case \u2013 has effectively been overturned by a 2015 Court of Criminal Appeals ruling \u2018granting relief\u2019 to the Kellers on a single question of retracted medical testimony. But the ruling was not accompanied by actual exoneration from the allegedly heinous crimes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly a single appeals court judge \u2013 Cheryl Johnson \u2013 was willing to admit no crime had in fact occurred. \u2018This was a witch hunt from the beginning,\u2019 wrote Johnson, in her opinion concurring with the opaque ruling of the full court. Johnson would have granted relief on all the Kellers&#8217; claims, and would have acknowledged that the entire prosecution had been an egregious folly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe limited ruling, while welcome in itself, left the Kellers in a legal limbo \u2013 permanently accused but not cleared&#8230;. required to somehow further demonstrate their innocence \u2013 of crimes that never happened&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinchronicle.com\/news\/2016-03-11\/learning-from-our-mistakes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Learning From Our Mistakes<\/a>\u201d\u00a0by Michael King in the Austin Chronicle (March 11) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2031\">cached<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So who thwarts the hapless Kellers? Yes, yet another prosecutor who sets the bar for exoneration stratospherically high. Although District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg (here\u2019s why her <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rosemary_Lehmberg\" target=\"_blank\">name rings a bell<\/a>) supported their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1146\">release<\/a>,\u00a0she now finds herself unable to \u201cfind a path to innocence\u201d without the deal-sealing exculpation of DNA evidence. Those darn imaginary criminals sure do clean up after themselves&#8230;.<\/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>March 13, 2016 \u201cFran and Dan Keller have been released from a Texas prison after 21 years, yet still have little freedom of movement or circumstance, or even quality of life. Their 1992 conviction on multiple counts of \u2018sexual assault of a minor\u2019 \u2013 in the now notorious Fran&#8217;s Day Care case \u2013 has effectively [&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-2033","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\/2033","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=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2037,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions\/2037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}