{"id":427,"date":"2012-03-14T22:40:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T22:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=427"},"modified":"2015-12-29T22:44:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T22:44:38","slug":"the-ugly-truth-about-nancy-lambs-state-of-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"The ugly truth about ‘Nancy Lamb’s state of mind’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"120314Brock\"March 14, 2012<\/p>\n

\u201cProsecutor Nancy Lamb practiced a little \u2018voodoo\u2019 psychology by telling the jury that when Dawn Wilson held and played with her child during breaks in the trial, it wasn\u2019t because she loved the child \u2013 it was all a show for the benefit of the jury.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo psychologist could have accurately reported on the state of mind or the motives of Wilson when she played with her child. However, had a psychologist known that Wilson had been offered a plea bargain which included no jail time if she pointed the finger at the others, and had told prosecutors to \u2018Find yourselves another patsy,\u2019 that psychologist might have known something about Nancy Lamb\u2019s state of mind when she made those statements.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 From “Due Process Is Good Psychology,” article in
\nMichigan Lawyer Weekly by Michael G. Brock<\/em><\/p>\n

Defending this smear, one of many, Lamb said Wilson was presenting herself as a good mother, and \u201cWe had to remove that mask.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1995 the N.C. Court of Appeals overturned her conviction.\u00a0And then of course the prosecutors rushed to apologize to Dawn Wilson for their disgraceful vilification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

March 14, 2012 \u201cProsecutor Nancy Lamb practiced a little \u2018voodoo\u2019 psychology by telling the jury that when Dawn Wilson held and played with her child during breaks in the trial, it wasn\u2019t because she loved the child \u2013 it was all a show for the benefit of the jury. \u201cNo psychologist could have accurately reported […]<\/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-427","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\/427","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=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}