{"id":398,"date":"2012-02-22T21:46:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T21:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=398"},"modified":"2016-07-04T12:45:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T12:45:52","slug":"constitution-prohibits-punishment-in-limbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"Constitution prohibits &#8216;punishment in limbo&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\">Feb. 22, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201c(Even as) prosecutors quietly dropped all charges against the remaining three defendants, (Nancy Lamb) had the temerity to hint that there was sufficient evidence to convict if the state were disposed to go to trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cThis kind of talk betrays the same imperious mentality that has left (Robin Byrum, Shelley<br \/>\nStone and Darlene Harris) turning in the wind for eight years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cA person charged with a crime is entitled under our Constitution to a timely resolution&#8230; a chance either to pay his debt to society or get on with his life. There is no excuse for punishment in limbo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 Editorial in the Greensboro News &amp; Record, Dec. 21, 1996<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 22, 2012 \u201c(Even as) prosecutors quietly dropped all charges against the remaining three defendants, (Nancy Lamb) had the temerity to hint that there was sufficient evidence to convict if the state were disposed to go to trial. \u201cThis kind of talk betrays the same imperious mentality that has left (Robin Byrum, Shelley Stone and [&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-398","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\/398","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=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2529,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/2529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}