{"id":1959,"date":"2009-10-24T22:50:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T04:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2009-10-24T22:59:27","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T04:59:27","slug":"a-competent-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1959","title":{"rendered":"A Competent Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Todd Willingham Case continues to gather attention.  This is a ten-minute interview with Willingham&#8217;s defense attorney.  His <i>defense<\/i> attorney.<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/L5cFKpjRnXE&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2009\/10\/if_he_can_be_a_lawyer_then_he_can_be_a_lawyer.php\">Ta-Nehisi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s like watching a root-docter, who&#8217;s just performed a heart transplant, try to explain why the patient is dead. I deeply suspect that this is all unexceptional. There is no fool-proof anything in this world&#8211;least of all a death penalty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am lying here with my jaw in my lap.  This is the government we are trusting with the power of life and death.<\/p>\n<p>That ticker on the death penalty just moved a step closer to oppose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Todd Willingham Case continues to gather attention. This is a ten-minute interview with Willingham&#8217;s defense attorney. His defense attorney. Ta-Nehisi: It&#8217;s like watching a root-docter, who&#8217;s just performed a heart transplant, try to explain why the patient is dead. I deeply suspect that this is all unexceptional. There is no fool-proof anything in this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1959\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Competent Defense<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-order","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-vB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1961,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions\/1961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}