July 11, 2009
Complete coverage: Miller Place shooting
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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