{"id":2630,"date":"2016-07-29T19:40:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T19:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2630"},"modified":"2016-08-05T15:55:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T15:55:54","slug":"view-from-inmate-das-build-careers-on-the-backs-of-us-innocent-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2630","title":{"rendered":"View from inmate: DAs build \u2018careers on the backs of us innocent prisoners\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2631\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2631\" style=\"width: 171px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2631\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/160729Johnson.jpg\" alt=\"Lorenzo Johnson\" width=\"171\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/160729Johnson.jpg 171w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/160729Johnson-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 171px) 100vw, 171px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2631\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorenzo Johnson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">July 29, 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes prosecutors withhold exculpatory evidence of a defendant\u2019s innocence, and don\u2019t turn it over until they are forced to. Take a look\u00a0at the exonerations reported in recent years and you will see a pattern of prosecutors continuing to fight against our release\u00a0even when our innocence is uncovered. Many innocent prisoners have been buried alive in these prisons by this kind of corruption&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do the culprits sleep at night? Well, to be honest, these people have no consciences. It\u2019s like any other day at the job\u00a0for them. Some have built their careers on the backs of us innocent prisoners, and now they sit in high places.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil the day comes when culprits responsible for wrongful convictions are held fully accountable \u2013 wrongful convictions will never stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/lorenzo-johnson\/when-courts-are-used-as-a_b_10927492.html\" target=\"_blank\">When Courts Are Used As A Weapon Against The Innocent<\/a>\u201d\u00a0by Lorenzo Johnson at Huffington Post (July 12)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Johnson had served 16 1\/2 years of a life-without-parole sentence when in 2012 the Third Circuit Federal Court of Appeals found insufficient evidence for his conviction. He remained free for four months, after which the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reinstated the conviction and ordered him back to a Pennsylvania prison. He continues to <a href=\"http:\/\/fox43.com\/2016\/05\/12\/20-year-old-murder-case-returns-to-dauphin-county-court\/\" target=\"_blank\">seek a new trial<\/a>.<\/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 29, 2016 \u201cSometimes prosecutors withhold exculpatory evidence of a defendant\u2019s innocence, and don\u2019t turn it over until they are forced to. Take a look\u00a0at the exonerations reported in recent years and you will see a pattern of prosecutors continuing to fight against our release\u00a0even when our innocence is uncovered. Many innocent prisoners have been [&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-2630","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\/2630","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=2630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2639,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions\/2639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}