{"id":888,"date":"2013-03-20T22:57:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T22:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=888"},"modified":"2016-07-04T10:33:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T10:33:15","slug":"potent-weapon-for-n-c-das-court-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=888","title":{"rendered":"Potent weapon for N.C. DAs: court calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\">March 20, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cUnlike their counterparts in every other state, North Carolina prosecutors have control over criminal court calendars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cIn the Little Rascals case, prosecutors used their trial-scheduling authority to let defendants wait for years before proceeding with their cases. They have held the power of the calendar over (Bob) Kelly for a decade without having to account to any other government authority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201cLittle Rascals Day Care case still not over\u201d\u00a0in the Raleigh News &amp; Observer (Jan. 4, 1999)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Almost nine more months would pass before prosecutors dropped the last charges against Bob Kelly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Despite efforts at reform, district attorneys in North Carolina still maintain near total control over court calendars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 20, 2013 \u201cUnlike their counterparts in every other state, North Carolina prosecutors have control over criminal court calendars. \u201cIn the Little Rascals case, prosecutors used their trial-scheduling authority to let defendants wait for years before proceeding with their cases. They have held the power of the calendar over (Bob) Kelly for a decade without [&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-888","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\/888","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=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2460,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/2460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}