{"id":430,"date":"2012-03-16T22:44:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T22:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=430"},"modified":"2016-07-04T12:43:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T12:43:40","slug":"court-finds-harts-ploy-grossly-improper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=430","title":{"rendered":"Court finds Hart&#8217;s ploy &#8216;grossly improper&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\">March 16, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cThe appeals court called a maneuver (in Dawn Wilson\u2019s trial) by the chief special prosecutor, Bill Hart, \u2018grossly improper.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cThe judges found that Hart had tried to impugn the reputation of Wilson by placing in the courtroom audience two people whose presence was likely to intimidate Wilson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cHart never called the pair as witnesses, but&#8230; by his actions had implied to Wilson that he intended to use the two people against her in a way that might result in self-incrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From the (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot, May 3, 1995<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">In 1995 the N.C. Court of Appeals overturned her conviction.\u00a0<span class=\"style218\">And then of course the prosecutors rushed to apologize to Dawn Wilson for their disgraceful vilification<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 16, 2012 \u201cThe appeals court called a maneuver (in Dawn Wilson\u2019s trial) by the chief special prosecutor, Bill Hart, \u2018grossly improper.\u2019 \u201cThe judges found that Hart had tried to impugn the reputation of Wilson by placing in the courtroom audience two people whose presence was likely to intimidate Wilson. \u201cHart never called the pair [&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-430","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\/430","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=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2527,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/2527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}