{"id":2962,"date":"2017-08-02T01:33:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T01:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2962"},"modified":"2017-08-02T01:34:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T01:34:56","slug":"toppins-interview-notes-just-a-lot-of-extra-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2962","title":{"rendered":"Toppin\u2019s interview notes: \u2018Just a lot of extra paper\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2964\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2964\" style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2964\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/170801Toppin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brenda Toppin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Aug. 1, 2017<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the McMartin case, the defense used videotapes of therapists&#8217; interviews with the children to suggest that the idea of abuse had been implanted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Ofra] Bikel says, &#8216;The authorities in North Carolina [in the Little Rascals case], who I know met with the McMartin prosecutors, learned from them that the therapists&#8217; notes should just be summaries. They learned that if you want to win a case, it&#8217;s a bad idea to have tapes around.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe prosecution interviewer [Brenda Toppin] is shown testifying that she cannot say why her original interview notes were destroyed: \u2018It&#8217;s just a lot of extra paper,\u2019 she said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/articles.chicagotribune.com\/1993-07-20\/features\/9307200260_1_rascals-accusations-frontline\/2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justice Abuse? &#8216;Frontline&#8217; Documentary Takes Hard Look At A Small-town Scandal<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0by Bart Mills in the Chicago Tribune (July 20, 1993)<\/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>Aug. 1, 2017 \u201cIn the McMartin case, the defense used videotapes of therapists&#8217; interviews with the children to suggest that the idea of abuse had been implanted. \u201c[Ofra] Bikel says, &#8216;The authorities in North Carolina [in the Little Rascals case], who I know met with the McMartin prosecutors, learned from them that the therapists&#8217; notes [&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-2962","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\/2962","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=2962"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2967,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions\/2967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}