{"id":307,"date":"2011-12-28T01:51:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T01:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=307"},"modified":"2016-07-04T12:58:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T12:58:26","slug":"prosecution-kept-its-eye-on-the-wrong-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"Prosecution kept its eye on the (wrong) target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\">Dec. 28, 2011<\/p>\n<p class=\"style170\">\u201cThroughout the trial, prosecuting attorneys (in the Little Rascals case) repeatedly pursued their hunches without an apparent desire to test an alternate theory. This resulted in a rather spectacular false admission by 6-year-old Andy, who had been a 3-year-old at the time of the alleged sexual abuse by Bob Kelly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style170\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-308\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/111228Ceci.jpg\" alt=\"111228Ceci\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/>\u201c \u2018<strong>Prosecutor<\/strong>: Do you remember a time where you ever had to do anything to Mr. Bob\u2019s hiney with your mouth?<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style170\"><em>\u201c \u2018<strong>Andy<\/strong>: No, ma\u2019am.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style170\"><em>\u201c \u2018<strong>Prosecutor<\/strong>: Do you remember telling Dr. Betty that one time you had to lick Mr. Bob\u2019s hiney? Did that happen? Did you ever have to do that, that you didn\u2019t want to do it?<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style170\"><em>\u201c \u2018<strong>Andy<\/strong>: Yes, ma\u2019am.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style170\">\u201cIn reality, the prosecutor had made a mistake, thinking that the charge was that Andy had sodomized Bob Kelly, rather than the other way around. The state dropped this charge after it realized Andy had admitted to the wrong charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style170\">\u201cThis ought to have sensitized the prosecution to the very real dangers of pursuing a single hypothesis in the relentless manner we have described, but unfortunately it did not appear to have done so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201cJeopardy in the Courtroom: A Scientific Analysis of Children\u2019s Testimony\u201d<br \/>\nby Stephen J. Ceci and Maggie Bruck (1995)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 28, 2011 \u201cThroughout the trial, prosecuting attorneys (in the Little Rascals case) repeatedly pursued their hunches without an apparent desire to test an alternate theory. This resulted in a rather spectacular false admission by 6-year-old Andy, who had been a 3-year-old at the time of the alleged sexual abuse by Bob Kelly. \u201c \u2018Prosecutor: [&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-307","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\/307","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=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2540,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/2540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}