{"id":2138,"date":"2016-05-10T20:06:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T20:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2138"},"modified":"2016-05-10T20:10:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T20:10:38","slug":"the-prosecution-failed-at-everything-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2138","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The prosecution failed at everything but&#8230;.\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2140\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2140\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2140\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/160510Lamb.jpg\" alt=\"Nancy Lamb\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/160510Lamb.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/160510Lamb-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Lamb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">May 10, 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAssistant District Attorney Nancy Lamb once said, \u2018The goal of the prosecution is to seek justice.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the defendants were guilty, the prosecution failed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the defendants were innocent, the prosecution failed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe prosecution failed at everything but taking years from people&#8217;s lives, ruining their reputations, breaking up their marriages, dividing the people of a small town, wasting more than $1 million of the taxpayers&#8217; money and smearing North Carolina&#8217;s reputation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c &#8216;Rascals&#8217; debacle ends, but damage is done,\u201d an editorial in the Wilmington Morning Star (Sept. 27, 1999) after prosecutors dropped the last charges against Bob Kelly<\/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>May 10, 2016 \u201cAssistant District Attorney Nancy Lamb once said, \u2018The goal of the prosecution is to seek justice.\u2019 \u201cIf the defendants were guilty, the prosecution failed. \u201cIf the defendants were innocent, the prosecution failed. \u201cThe prosecution failed at everything but taking years from people&#8217;s lives, ruining their reputations, breaking up their marriages, dividing 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-2138","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\/2138","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=2138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2142,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions\/2142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}