{"id":2802,"date":"2017-02-22T20:53:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T20:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2017-02-22T20:53:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T20:53:11","slug":"letters-claiming-wrongful-conviction-couldnt-be-true-could-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2802","title":{"rendered":"Letters claiming wrongful conviction couldn\u2019t be true \u2013 could they?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2803\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2803\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2803\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/170222Rachlin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/170222Rachlin.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/170222Rachlin-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2803\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benjamin Rachlin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Feb. 22, 2017<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.unc.edu\/faculty\/directory\/rosenrichard\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rich Rosen<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theresa.newman.526\" target=\"_blank\">Theresa Newman<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.coleman.7127\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Coleman<\/a>\u00a0began planning the state\u2019s first innocence project], not everyone agreed their work was worth doing. To many&#8230; colleagues, in North Carolina and across the country, the letters they were reading were no more than acts of desperation: There was zero chance these inmates were innocent, only that they had nothing to lose by filing paperwork. The American criminal-justice system had always trivialized its own chances at convicting anyone wrongly, feeling certain \u2013 as lawyer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/chris.mumma.98\" target=\"_blank\">Christine Mumma<\/a>\u00a0no longer could \u2013 that protections at trial made that outcome impossible&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/TIME-Innocent-Against-Wrongful-Convictions\/dp\/1683300386\/ref=pd_sbs_14_img_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=PG3G72WX7GKPE394G3BC\" target=\"_blank\">A Justice Startup<\/a>\u201d by Benjamin Rachlin in \u201cInnocent: The Fight Against Wrongful Convictions,\u201d\u00a0a Time special edition<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Rachlin\u2019s piece is excerpted from \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ghost-Innocent-Man-Story-Redemption\/dp\/0316311499\" target=\"_blank\">Ghost of the Innocent Man: A True Story of Trial and Redemption<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0to be published in August.<\/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>Feb. 22, 2017 \u201c[When Rich Rosen,\u00a0Theresa Newman\u00a0and Jim Coleman\u00a0began planning the state\u2019s first innocence project], not everyone agreed their work was worth doing. To many&#8230; colleagues, in North Carolina and across the country, the letters they were reading were no more than acts of desperation: There was zero chance these inmates were innocent, only that [&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-2802","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\/2802","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=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2805,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions\/2805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}