{"id":4932,"date":"2021-12-13T18:45:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T00:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/?p=4932"},"modified":"2021-12-13T18:45:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T00:45:52","slug":"let-it-go-prosecutors-want-supreme-court-to-overturn-cosby-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/let-it-go-prosecutors-want-supreme-court-to-overturn-cosby-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"LET IT GO: Prosecutors want Supreme Court to Overturn Cosby Verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Killing a gnat with a bat.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors in Pennsylvania announced Monday they&#8217;re appealing a court ruling in the case against #BillCosby to the US Supreme Court, arguing that a statement from a previous district attorney that they would not file charges against Cosby does not mean that charges would never be filed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The question presented to the Court is: &#8216;Where a prosecutor publicly announces that he will not file criminal charges based on lack of evidence, does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment transform that announcement into a binding promise that no charges will ever be filed, a promise that the target may rely on as if it were a grant of immunity?&#8217; &#8221; the release states.<\/p>\n<p>The petition has not yet been officially received by the US Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think the Supreme Court will take on the case?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Killing a gnat with a bat. Prosecutors in Pennsylvania announced Monday they&#8217;re appealing a court ruling in the case against&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[130,80],"tags":[81,602,261,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4934,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932\/revisions\/4934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}