{"id":363,"date":"2012-02-01T15:14:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T15:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=363"},"modified":"2015-12-29T15:20:35","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T15:20:35","slug":"thats-our-case-and-were-sticking-to-it-cont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=363","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s our case, and we&#8217;re sticking to it (cont.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-364\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/120201Paradise.jpg\" alt=\"120201Paradise\" width=\"350\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/120201Paradise.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/120201Paradise-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Feb. 1, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">The HBO documentary &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=342\">Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0surely deserves its Oscar nomination, although the only edge it holds over Ofra Bikel\u2019s \u201cInnocence Lost\u201d trilogy of the \u201990s is its happy-tears finale: the three defendants walking out of prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">After much lawyering, the West Memphis Three in August accepted an Alford plea that allowed them to go free,\u00a0 while protecting the state of Arkansas from a wrongful-imprisonment\u00a0 suit and the national embarrassment of a retrial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">I had to laugh at this exchange from the ensuing press conference:<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\"><strong>Reporter<\/strong>: &#8220;Will the state continue to investigate this case if additional information is brought forth, or is the case closed?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\"><strong>Prosecutor Scott Ellington<\/strong>: &#8220;I have no reason to believe there was anyone else involved in the homicides of these three children but the three defendants who pled guilty today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\"><strong>Defense attorney Dennis Riordon<\/strong>: &#8220;Does anyone believe that if the state had even the slightest continuing conviction they were guilty that it would have let these men go free today?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">If H.P. Williams Jr., Nancy Lamb and Bill Hart were watching \u2013 unlikely, given the spotlight shone on unjust prosecution \u2013 no doubt they would have admired Ellington&#8217;s resolve in the face of reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 1, 2012 The HBO documentary &#8220;Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0surely deserves its Oscar nomination, although the only edge it holds over Ofra Bikel\u2019s \u201cInnocence Lost\u201d trilogy of the \u201990s is its happy-tears finale: the three defendants walking out of prison. After much lawyering, the West Memphis Three in August accepted an Alford plea that allowed [&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-363","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\/363","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=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}