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March 20, 2008

Judge not afraid to make unpopular decision

The judge who sent John White to prison yesterday has been known to provoke anger from the bench.

March 19, 2008

Two communities react to John White's sentence

Outside the bagel shop and the ice-cream parlor, the market and the cul-de-sac, people in the communities surrounding the homes of the Whites and the Cicciaros warily expressed mixed emotions about John White's 2- to 4-year sentence Wednesday.

January 5, 2008

Sharpton leads protest in Miller Place case

Supporters of a black man convicted in the shooting death of a white teenager who went to the man's Miller Place home to confront the man's son have insisted all along that if the races were reversed, the legal outcome would have been different.

January 5, 2008

Jury in John White trial boiled with tension

Inside the John White jury room, the tension got so high at one point that a juror punched a wall, and another slammed a bathroom door so hard the courtroom walls shook. Jurors asked him to go to an adjoining room to cool off. After four days, Francois Larche thought he and his fellow jurors finally had agreed on only one thing: This jury was hung.

December 29, 2007

Lawyers: Hate crimes ignored in Miller Place death

For the defense in the John White case, it's a question that remains unanswered: Why weren't members of the angry group of white teens that gathered at the end of a black family's driveway in August 2006 charged with a bias crime?

December 28, 2007

Sharpton plans Riverhead march to protest verdict

The Rev. Al Sharpton says the John White trial shows Suffolk County is not a place of equal justice for blacks and whites, and he plans to make that opinion the focus of a march next week in Riverhead.

December 26, 2007

Experts: Judge, not jury, focus of White appeal

Any appeal of John White's manslaughter conviction will more likely be determined by any pressure the judge exerted on jurors eager to get home for Christmas rather than pressure they put on each other, legal experts say.

December 25, 2007

Juror's admission could provide White case appeal

Revelations from a holdout juror could form the basis of an appeal in the case of John White, the black man convicted of killing a white youth during a racially charged confrontation in Miller Place, White's lawyer said Tuesday.

December 24, 2007

Miller Place trial: Juror felt pressured to convict John White

Feeling pressure to return to his family as Christmas rapidly approached -- and to let his fellow jurors return to theirs -- Francois Larche finally agreed to convict John White of manslaughter, despite believing that prosecutors did not prove that White was not justified in his actions the night he shot dead Daniel Cicciaro Jr. in front of White's home.

December 23, 2007

We will forgive him

A day after celebrating a guilty verdict, Daniel Cicciaro Jr.'s parents yesterday uttered a word with potentially tremendous impact in the lives of the Cicciaro and White families:

December 23, 2007

Shooter says he feels for family of his victim

Hands clasped in front of him and wearing the suit he had just worn to church, John White stood in the driveway where he gunned down 17-year-old Daniel Cicciaro Jr. over a year ago and offered a few fleeting words the morning after his conviction.

December 23, 2007

Joye Brown: There's more to the story

"I crossed the color line a long time ago," John White told me in one of the few informal conversations we had in the hallway during courtroom breaks during his trial in Riverhead.

Jurors: Evidence left us no choice

Evidence in the case of a Miller Place man convicted of killing an unarmed teenager left jurors no choice but to find the man guilty in the racially charged trial, one of the jurors said yesterday.

December 23, 2007

For many, it was a case about race

As black leaders criticized the trial and conviction of John White on manslaughter and weapons charges, all agreed yesterday that the case was bedeviled at every turn by the issue of race.

December 22, 2007

Father found guilty in shooting of white teen

A Suffolk County jury late Saturday night convicted John White of manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon in the 2006 killing of an unarmed teenager.

December 22, 2007

Jury continues deliberations after hearing readbacks

A Suffolk jury deliberating the fate of John White, the Miller Place man charged with killing Daniel Cicciaro Jr., was asked to continue deliberating until at least 9 p.m. Saturday by Suffolk County Court Judge Barbara Kahn.

December 18, 2007

Jury in shooting case has choice of two verdicts

A jury will have the option of convicting John White of a misdemeanor -- rather than a felony -- for the shooting death of Daniel Cicciaro Jr., a Suffolk County judge ruled Tuesday.

December 12, 2007

Prosecutor grills shooting suspect's son

A visibly rattled and tentative Aaron White frequently contradicted himself on key testimony as he was relentlessly cross-examined by a Suffolk prosecutor in the manslaughter trial of his father, John White.

December 10, 2007

Son testifies in dad's killing trial

Wearing a bulletproof vest and swarmed by an entourage that included members of the Nation of Islam and 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, Aaron White stepped into the Suffolk County courthouse in Riverhead Monday and gave a considerably different version of events than jurors have previously heard about the night his father shot Daniel Cicciaro Jr. in the face.