{"id":2113,"date":"2016-04-20T21:31:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T21:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2016-04-20T21:33:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T21:33:38","slug":"this-time-will-nc-bar-tell-das-to-play-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2113","title":{"rendered":"This time, will NC Bar tell DAs to play fair?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2114\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2114\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2114\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/160420Bannon.jpg\" alt=\"Brad Bannon\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/160420Bannon.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/160420Bannon-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brad Bannon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">April 20, 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018If prosecutors have an ethical duty to avoid wrongful convictions, then they should have some sort of ethical duty to remedy wrongful convictions,\u2019 said attorney Brad Bannon of the North Carolina Bar&#8217;s ethics committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wants North Carolina to adopt a rule recommended by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/content\/dam\/aba\/events\/criminal_justice\/Forensics_Ethics_Saltzburg.authcheckdam.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">American Bar Association<\/a>,\u00a0requiring prosecutors to come forward if they find \u2018new, credible and material evidence\u2019 that an innocent person is serving time. Thirteen states have adopted the post-conviction rule. North Carolina isn&#8217;t among them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe State Bar rejected the rule several years ago but recently appointed a committee to reconsider&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/rule-targets-prosecutors-reveal-innocence-evidence-38446264\" target=\"_blank\">Rule targets prosecutors who don&#8217;t reveal innocence evidence<\/a>\u201d\u00a0by Martha Waggoner of the Associated Press (April 16)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Given prosecutors\u2019 disproportionate influence on the state bar, to even \u201creconsider\u201d the disclosure rule suggests the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1944\" target=\"_blank\">recent stream of unbecoming publicity<\/a> \u00a0hasn\u2019t gone unnoticed.<\/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>April 20, 2016 \u201c\u2018If prosecutors have an ethical duty to avoid wrongful convictions, then they should have some sort of ethical duty to remedy wrongful convictions,\u2019 said attorney Brad Bannon of the North Carolina Bar&#8217;s ethics committee. \u201cHe wants North Carolina to adopt a rule recommended by the American Bar Association,\u00a0requiring prosecutors to come forward [&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-2113","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\/2113","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=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions\/2116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}