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[GUILTY Cop Jailed]

Cop gets 16 months for staging abduction, stealing $50,000 from police department
September 22, 2009, 1:03PM

The file photo, supplied by the Decatur Police Department, shows Sgt. Faron White, THE HEAD OF Decatur, Ala.'s ORGANIZED CRIME UNIT..

A federal judge in Huntsville imposed a 16-month sentence Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009 on Decatur police officer White, who STAGED HIS APPARENT ABDUCTION, STOLE $50,000 from the department and FLED to Las Vegas in January.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.— A federal judge has imposed a 16-month sentence on a Decatur police officer who staged his apparent abduction, stole $50,000 from the department and fled to Las Vegas.

The judge in Huntsville sentenced Decatur police Sgt. Faron White for theft on Tuesday. A co-defendant, POLICE VOLUNTEER Sarah Elizabeth Richardson, was ALSO SENTENCED to three years on probation and fined $500.

The judge also told her to seek mental health counseling.

White already has been in jail for eight months.

White ADMITTED stealing money from his office safe, staging his disappearance and fleeing to Las Vegas in January. Authorities said he had debts from gambling and normal family expenses.
The judge ordered White to pay about $50,000 in restitution to Decatur police.

http://blog.al.com/live/2009/09/ex-cop_gets_1...

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[Miss Conduct]

MURDER CASE AGAINST RALPH ARMSTRONG DISMISSED AFTER PROSECUTOR HID EVIDENCE OF HIS INNOCENCE

A Circuit Court Judge DISMISSED RAPE AND MURDER CHARGES AGAINST RALPH ARMSTRONG ON FRIDAY BASED ON THE MISCONDUCT OF A DANE COUNTY PROSECUTOR WHO CONCEALED EVIDENCE OF ARMSTRONG’S INNOCENCE.

Armstrong was convicted in 1981 of the rape and murder of fellow University of Wisconsin-Madison student Charise Kamps. HE HAS ALWAYS MAINTAINED HIS INNOCENCE.

Armstrong’s conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court in 2005 after DNA TESTING ON HAIR AND SEMEN EXCLUDED ARMSTRONG as the perpetrator.
PROSECUTORS SOUGHT TO RETRY ARMSTRONG, AND HE HAS BEEN IN CUSTODY AWAITING RETRIAL FOR FOUR YEARS.

At a hearing in April, a woman testified that she called Assistant District Attorney John Norsetter in 1995 to report that Armstrong’s brother, Stephen, confessed to the crime.

EVEN THOUGH ARMSTRONG’S CASE WAS ON APPEAL 11 YEARS AFTER NORSETTER LEARNED OF THE CONFESSION IN 1995, HE NEVER TOLD DEFENSE ATTORNEYS ABOUT THE PHONE CALL AND NEVER PURSUED THE LEAD.
Norsetter violated that court order by subjecting evidence in the case to additional DNA testing.

Those tests, which were conducted illegally, used up the biological evidence and prevented it from being available for further testing. Moreover, the type of DNA testing Norsetter ordered would not have distinguished genetic material between male relatives, rendering it useless to the defense since the principal alternate suspect was Ralph Armstrong’s brother.

In his ruling on Friday dismissing the case against Armstrong, Judge Robert E. Kenney said THAT THE PROSECUTOR’S ACTIONS “STEMMED FROM A SERIES OF CONSCIOUS DECISIONS THAT HAD VERY ADVERSE CONSEQUENCES.”

“THIS IS A PARTICULARLY CHILLING CASE OF PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT,” said Innocence Project Co-Director Barry Scheck.

“Even after the state Supreme Court threw out Ralph Armstrong’s conviction based on evidence of his innocence, the prosecutor continued to withhold yet more evidence of his innocence.”

The Innocence Project got involved in Armstrong’s case in 1993 and has worked on the case ever since with Wisconsin attorneys Jerome Buting and Keith Belzer.

PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT HAS PLAYED A ROLE IN SCORES OF WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS that were later overturned with DNA testing – and, in many cases like Armstrong’s, prosecutorial misconduct has also prevented innocent people from being exonerated much sooner.

Among the 241 people nationwide who were exonerated through DNA testing, fully 25% cited prosecutorial misconduct in their appeals or civil lawsuits. IN 38% OF THOSE CASES, PROSECUTORS WERE ACCUSED OF WITHHOLDING EVIDENCE THAT COULD PROVE INNOCENCE.

The TEXAS Innocence Project has worked on cases in which prosecutors withheld evidence implicating the true perpetrators, solicited false testimony from informants, deliberately mistreated or destroyed evidence, and more. Those prosecutors are rarely held accountable; some remain working as prosecutors, while others have gone on to become judges.

On Thursday, Mississippi CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE BOBBY DELAUGHTER PLED GUILTY TO LYING TO FBI AGENTS who were investigating him in a corruption case.

In the 1990s, when DeLaughter was a local prosecutor, he handled a rape and murder case involving Cedric Willis. Willis was arrested for raping a woman and, four days later, killing a man. Police and prosecutors always knew the same man committed both crimes – and they were certain that man was Willis.

When DNA testing proved Willis didn’t commit the rape, DeLaughter pressed ahead with the murder case against him and convinced a judge to withhold from the jury any information about the related rape for which

Willis was proven innocent.

Willis served 12 years in prison before he was exonerated.

http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/2096....