{"id":770,"date":"2012-12-31T14:42:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T14:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=770"},"modified":"2016-07-04T10:55:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T10:55:20","slug":"a-state-lost-the-ability-to-see-clearly-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=770","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A state lost the ability to see clearly&#8217; \u2013 again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/120813Cooper.jpg\" alt=\"120813Cooper\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/>Dec. 31, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Anticipating Attorney General Roy Cooper\u2019s 2007 statement dismissing charges against the lacrosse defendants, Duke law professor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/sports\/college\/lacrosse\/bal-sp.dukeside11apr11,0,1373148.story?coll=bal-college-lacrosse\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Haagen<\/a>\u00a0said,<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cThe critical thing could be the wording. It could simply say the state can no longer prove its case, which would be a very harmful outcome for the community, (or it) could provide a full accounting of why the case should never have been brought.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">As it turned out, Cooper \u2013 elbowed along by the Duke students\u2019 phalanx of top-shelf lawyers \u2013 chose the road less traveled by prosecutorial bitter-enders such as H. P. Williams, Nancy Lamb and Bill Hart:<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cIn the rush to condemn, a community and a state lost the ability to see clearly&#8230;. I think a lot of people owe a lot of apologies to a lot of people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Cooper\u2019s words were appropriate to end the case of the lacrosse defendants \u2013 and they would be just as appropriate to end the case of the Edenton Seven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 31, 2012 Anticipating Attorney General Roy Cooper\u2019s 2007 statement dismissing charges against the lacrosse defendants, Duke law professor\u00a0Paul Haagen\u00a0said, \u201cThe critical thing could be the wording. It could simply say the state can no longer prove its case, which would be a very harmful outcome for the community, (or it) could provide a full [&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-770","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\/770","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=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2483,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/2483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}