{"id":935,"date":"2013-05-06T02:25:42","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T02:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=935"},"modified":"2016-07-04T10:19:16","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T10:19:16","slug":"chandlers-hopes-rest-with-innocence-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=935","title":{"rendered":"Chandler&#8217;s hopes rest with innocence project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\">May 6, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">When last we left Junior Chandler, his former appellate defender, Mark Montgomery, had asked North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=782\">look into the case<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">But NCPLS requires the prisoner himself to request help, and that hasn\u2019t happened. \u201cLike a lot of the old-timers, Junior does not think they (NCPLS) are worth much,\u201d Montgomery says. \u201cThere was a big shake up there a few years ago, and they are now very aggressive and as effective as anybody in post-conviction cases. I am going to encourage Junior (again) to ask for their help&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Meanwhile, he has pitched Junior\u2019s case to Christine Mumma at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nccai.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">N.C. Center on Actual Innocence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Here\u2019s the essential \u201cevidence of actual innocence\u201d that Montgomery offered Mumma:<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cLathern Hensley (a.k.a. Buddy Norton) was one of the adult mentally retarded riders on Junior\u2019s bus. He and another woman testified that Junior did stuff, and they helped. They each got probation-only plea deals. I found Hensley, but his guardian wouldn\u2019t let me talk with him. The Actual Innocence folks (with powers granted by the state) could insist on talking with Hensley. I think he would say that he was pressured into lying on the stand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">This is just the latest long shot in overturning Junior\u2019s wrongful conviction, and even if the Center on Actual Innocence agrees to take the case, the process is anything but swift. As the Center\u2019s website cautions, \u201cWe counsel patience to inmates and their families during the investigative phase as the process of gathering additional documentation; identifying, locating and interviewing witnesses; and completing many other investigative tasks can take several years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 6, 2013 When last we left Junior Chandler, his former appellate defender, Mark Montgomery, had asked North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services to\u00a0look into the case. But NCPLS requires the prisoner himself to request help, and that hasn\u2019t happened. \u201cLike a lot of the old-timers, Junior does not think they (NCPLS) are worth much,\u201d Montgomery [&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-935","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\/935","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=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2448,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions\/2448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}