{"id":2230,"date":"2016-06-30T18:13:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T18:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2230"},"modified":"2016-06-30T22:35:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T22:35:31","slug":"exoneree-sees-through-prosecutors-excuses-i-call-bs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2230","title":{"rendered":"Exoneree sees through prosecutors\u2019 excuses: \u2018I call BS\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2231\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2231\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2231\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/160630Waggoner.jpg\" alt=\"Martha Waggoner\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/160630Waggoner.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/160630Waggoner-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martha Waggoner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">June 30, 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorth Carolina\u2019s district attorneys say a proposed rule that would require them to turn over evidence of innocence after a person is convicted is&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone familiar with the worst practices of\u00a0 DAs won\u2019t be surprised at the rest of <a href=\"http:\/\/robesonian.com\/news\/89050\/da-association-innocence-rule-unnecessary\" target=\"_blank\">Martha Waggoner\u2019s sentence<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8230;.unnecessary because prosecutors already believe it should be turned over at any point, including post-conviction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chris Mumma of the N.C. Center on Actual Innocence, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1640\">herself punished for exposing wrongful prosecutions<\/a>,\u00a0wondered why DAs would object to putting their high standard in writing: \u201cIf all the rule does is raise confidence in the process, then it\u2019s beneficial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A more visceral response appeared on reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/martha.waggoner\" target=\"_blank\">Waggoner\u2019s Facebook page<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.innocenceproject.org\/cases\/dwayne-allen-dail\/\" target=\"_blank\">exoneree Dwayne Dail<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it is unnecessary and they already believe that there is a rule that holds them to that standard, then why haven&#8217;t they been doing it?! Why have they argued that they had no obligation to do this? Why wasn&#8217;t I told that there was an alternative suspect in MY case, who just so happened to be the true perp? Why did I only find out after years of investigation during my civil suits, after my exoneration, that the actual perp&#8217;s name was in their files but was never investigated? I call BS.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dail was convicted of raping a 12-year-old Goldsboro girl in 1987. DNA evidence cleared him in 2007.<\/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>June 30, 2016 \u201cNorth Carolina\u2019s district attorneys say a proposed rule that would require them to turn over evidence of innocence after a person is convicted is&#8230;.\u201d Anyone familiar with the worst practices of\u00a0 DAs won\u2019t be surprised at the rest of Martha Waggoner\u2019s sentence: \u201c&#8230;.unnecessary because prosecutors already believe it should be turned over [&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-2230","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\/2230","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=2230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2237,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions\/2237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}