{"id":495,"date":"2012-05-09T16:23:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T16:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=495"},"modified":"2015-12-30T16:26:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T16:26:00","slug":"prosecutors-have-upper-hand-in-plea-bargains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors have upper hand in plea bargains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\">May 9, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\"><em>\u201cA Question of Innocence: A True Story of False Accusation\u201d by Lawrence D. Spiegel was published in 1986, but this passage \u2013 lamenting plea-bargains by those falsely accused of assaulting children \u2013 applies exactly to Little Rascals:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cThe innocent often fall prey to the waiting hands of the prosecutor and plead guilty to a lesser charge, just to put an end to the ordeal and to the separation from a child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cProsecutors, as a result of over-zealousness to protect the child, blind ambition to further a career or a number of other reasons, will do \u2018strange\u2019 things for a conviction. It is always to the prosecutor&#8217;s benefit to get a guilty plea, even to a lesser charge. Sometimes the prosecutor will wait until the accused is emotionally and financially drained, then the plea bargain offer is made&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cSome falsely accused are so battered and beaten, they accept the humiliation and anger and take the deal. Often this occurs with the consent of the victim\u2019s attorney&#8230;. The stigma of the bargain will remain forever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 9, 2012 \u201cA Question of Innocence: A True Story of False Accusation\u201d by Lawrence D. Spiegel was published in 1986, but this passage \u2013 lamenting plea-bargains by those falsely accused of assaulting children \u2013 applies exactly to Little Rascals: \u201cThe innocent often fall prey to the waiting hands of the prosecutor and plead guilty [&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-495","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\/495","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=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}