{"id":589,"date":"2012-08-06T01:58:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T01:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=589"},"modified":"2015-12-31T02:01:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T02:01:20","slug":"bill-hart-used-day-care-moms-as-dating-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=589","title":{"rendered":"Bill Hart used day-care moms as dating pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-192\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/111202Hart.jpg\" alt=\"111202Hart\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/>Aug. 6, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Let\u2019s say you were a special deputy attorney general called in from Raleigh to help prosecute the Little Rascals case. Now imagine: What would be the most inappropriate, the most ethically questionable way you could possibly spend your spare time in Edenton? How about starting to date the mother of one of the alleged victims?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Yes, that\u2019s exactly what Bill Hart chose to do. He and Patricia A. Kephart had been involved for months even before Bob Kelly\u2019s trial began.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Readers of this blog won\u2019t be surprised to learn that Hart denied any impropriety and blamed the defense for trying \u201cto divert attention from the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">But Rich Rosen, professor of criminal procedure at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Law, told the News &amp; Observer of Raleigh (Dec. 20, 1991) that \u201cIt certainly raises questions in my mind. A prosecutor is not supposed to have any personal involvement or interest in the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">One question raised in my own mind: Unlikely, yes, but what if Hart had experienced a pang of doubt about the validity of the prosecution\u2019s case? Would he have been able to admit that to his girlfriend (much less to his fellow prosecutors)?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">At the conclusion of the state\u2019s case, prosecutors dropped charges related to Kephart\u2019s daughter. Hart and Kephart later married.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug. 6, 2012 Let\u2019s say you were a special deputy attorney general called in from Raleigh to help prosecute the Little Rascals case. Now imagine: What would be the most inappropriate, the most ethically questionable way you could possibly spend your spare time in Edenton? How about starting to date the mother of one of [&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-589","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\/589","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=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}