{"id":2238,"date":"2016-07-01T13:33:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T13:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2016-07-07T13:27:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T13:27:53","slug":"ever-so-slowly-progress-made-toward-das-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2238","title":{"rendered":"Ever so slowly, progress made toward DAs\u2019 accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2239\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2239\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2239 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/160701StateBar.jpg\" alt=\"160701StateBar\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/160701StateBar.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/160701StateBar-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From N.C. State Bar&#8217;s website<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">July 1, 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProsecutors should have to disclose evidence of innocence obtained after a person is convicted, a North Carolina State Bar panel agreed Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ethics subcommittee voted 3-2 at a meeting in Greensboro to support the general principle that a prosecutor&#8217;s duty to disclose innocence evidence continues after a defendant is sentenced, although the members didn&#8217;t settle on specific language. A federal prosecutor and a former district attorney opposed the motion, while three attorneys in private practice supported it&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe North Carolina Conference of District Attorneys had said in a letter to the State Bar that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2230\">prosecutors say that the rule is unnecessary<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe panel is just the first step in a lengthy process that \u2013 if the rule is approved at each step \u2013 involves the full ethics committee, public comment, the full State Bar Council and finally, the state Supreme Court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/news\/state\/north-carolina\/article86661167.html\" target=\"_blank\">NC panel: Innocence evidence right continues after sentence<\/a>\u201d\u00a0by Martha Waggoner of the Associated Press (June 29)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/news\/state\/north-carolina\/article86661167.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>July 1, 2016 \u201cProsecutors should have to disclose evidence of innocence obtained after a person is convicted, a North Carolina State Bar panel agreed Wednesday. \u201cThe ethics subcommittee voted 3-2 at a meeting in Greensboro to support the general principle that a prosecutor&#8217;s duty to disclose innocence evidence continues after a defendant is sentenced, although [&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-2238","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\/2238","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=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2612,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions\/2612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}