{"id":714,"date":"2012-11-12T08:01:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T08:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=714"},"modified":"2016-07-04T11:14:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T11:14:02","slug":"did-prosecutors-sell-out-for-name-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=714","title":{"rendered":"Did prosecutors sell out for name recognition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-715\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/121112Roberts.jpg\" alt=\"121112Roberts\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/>Nov. 12, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cIt is not conceivable that any of the prosecutors (in cases such as Little Rascals) believed a word of the charges responsible for ruining the lives of so many people. The cases were brought for one reason alone: to gain name recognition for the prosecutors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201cThe Tyranny of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice\u201d\u00a0by Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton (2008)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Could prosecutors really have sold their souls (not to mention their public trust) for mere \u201cname recognition\u201d? Or did their lust for guilty verdicts blind them to the obvious?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Most days, the latter seems more likely to me. Or perhaps a hybrid&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Indisputably, however, career benefits did attach to trumpeting from the courthouse steps that you\u2019ve sent away Bob Kelly for 12 consecutive life sentences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov. 12, 2012 \u201cIt is not conceivable that any of the prosecutors (in cases such as Little Rascals) believed a word of the charges responsible for ruining the lives of so many people. The cases were brought for one reason alone: to gain name recognition for the prosecutors.\u201d \u2013 From \u201cThe Tyranny of Good Intentions: [&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-714","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\/714","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=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2493,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/2493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}