{"id":30765,"date":"2012-07-13T11:01:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T15:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30765"},"modified":"2012-07-13T11:01:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T15:01:28","slug":"stolen-valor-criminal-doesnt-want-record-expunged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30765","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Valor criminal doesn&#8217;t want record expunged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard David McClanahan was imprisoned for 30 months partly because of his violations of the now-overturned Stolen Valor Act in Texas. Now he has the opportunity to fight to have that portion of his conviction cleared from his records, but the 34-year-old says that he doesn&#8217;t want to do that according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/2012\/07\/12\/4096832\/veteran-convicted-under-stolen.html\">Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have no desire to have my record expunged,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m not the victim here. The law was put into place for a very good reason.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I understand the legal reasons why it was overturned and have no doubt that it was the legitimate decision for the Supreme Court. But I respectfully disagree with the court&#8217;s decision. I wish the law had remained to prevent people like me from making absurd <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>McClanahan did not fight his prosecution. He pleaded guilty, and in two recent conversations with the Star-Telegram, he said that he hopes a new law can be crafted to satisfy the court&#8217;s objections. A new bill has been introduced in Congress that would tailor the definition of the crime to those who benefit financially from lying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wish more people could be brought down and exposed,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I still have friends in the military. I disrespected them. I don&#8217;t believe that people should be able to get away with that, and this coming from the guy who was convicted and did time for it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It looks to me like someone learned his lesson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard David McClanahan was imprisoned for 30 months partly because of his violations of the now-overturned &hellip; <a title=\"Stolen Valor criminal doesn&#8217;t want record expunged\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30765\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stolen Valor criminal doesn&#8217;t want record expunged<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stolen-valor-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}