What’s going to happen to Illinois State Police investigator Rick White is anyone’s guess.
But if certain authorities have their way, the next step might be a very intense one indeed.
On deadline for this current issue (May-June 2014), we came upon information that indicated White was going around at least three counties in the coverage area stating he was “under investigation for perjury.” This wasn’t a stretch to believe, as it’s been alleged in many different cases—and proven in a couple—that White will deliberately tell falsehoods in order to prop up “his” version of events in cases he’s working.
But that, as it’s turned out, wasn’t exactly the situation with the instant case.
Without giving any more of it away, now’s your chance to read the lead of this issue so you can find out more about this ever-developing story, which tells just how bad things have gotten for the state police. Here now is ‘Under investigation for perjury in OP‘ for your first Read the Lead of the day.
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SOUTHERN ILLINOIS—The Illinois State Police investigator whose name is becoming synonymous with botched cases is telling people in three counties that he’s under investigation for perjury.
This information comes on the heels of what White is apparently perceiving as a ‘victory’ over one of the two men who have taken him to the federal court venue over alleged civil rights violations.
But it also comes on the heels of what amounts to White’s losses in the state court system in two White County cases, both of them ending in mistrial, with one defendant suffering White’s bad temper so badly it resulted in loss of his medical license after White encouraged women to lie in order to get that license removed.
Add to this the fact that a young Wayne County man is still locked up over assertions that White obtained a sex assault confession from him when he didn’t; that White will probably be the investigator in charge of a case in Fairfield that was breaking on deadline; and that the Illinois State Police can be said to have their hands full with the guy who manages to get others in his field in trouble for talking to the media, but he himself skirts such trouble at every turn…and a full-fledged war of opinion has broken out over whether Rick White is worth the liability he’s apparently turning in to.
Sources in Wayne, White and Richland counties have all advised Disclosure that White is griping about…
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