From today's News-Gazette:
He cried intermittently as he apologized to his victims, their families, his own family, including his wife and almost 2-year-old daughter, the school districts, and the Bloomington-Normal and Champaign-Urbana communities.
Reynard said he found White "authentically remorseful but not perfectly remorseful until he's completely honest with himself," adding he believes White to be a pedophile who showed deviant tendencies as early as age 12.
Reynard said prosecutors in Champaign and McLean counties gave White a huge concession by allowing him to plead guilty to less serious sex crimes even though he felt there was evidence that would have supported the dismissed charges alleging actual physical contact between White's sex organ and some of the girls.
And:
White's attorney, Carol Dison, indicated she and fellow defense attorney Brett Olmstead will file motions to reconsider White's sentence in both counties as the necessary first step in the appeal process.
Dison, urged the judge to consider that there was "no overt sexual contact" with the children.
Discuss.
UPDATE: Typo in title fixed. Sorry!
In regards to crimes against children, I don't really care if he has any remorse. Whether he is sorry or not should have no bearing on his sentence.
"Jon White said he has already been exposed to "daily, hourly verbal abuse" from other prison inmates at Joliet who recognize him as the teacher who sexually exploited some of his own first- and second-grade students."
What does this scumbag expect???? Hey Jon you're in the joint, not on some picnic. White pled guilty now He can do His 60 years, Have a nice time in the joint Jon!!
There is no more excuse, he should responsible on what he did. Not matter what he said, he need to bear the sentence for the crime he did. That's all
Not "overt" because the girls were blindfolded and yet those blindfolds were recovered with White's DNA material on them.
Carol, how will you sleep at night?
i don't see how his attorneys could represent such a monster, I hope they got paid really good.
Not "overt" because the girls were blindfolded and yet those blindfolds were recovered with White's DNA material on them.
Carol, how will you sleep at night?
Eh, even Jon White is entitled to a good defense.
WW,
It's not about getting a good defense. Dison is deliberately mis-representing facts in order to somehow try to sway public opinion so people will feel sorry for Jonny-boy in an attempt to get his sentence reduced. It's frankly quite disgusting and a perfect example of why defense attorneys have the reputation that they do.
It's not about getting a good defense. Dison is deliberately mis-representing facts in order to somehow try to sway public opinion so people will feel sorry for Jonny-boy in an attempt to get his sentence reduced. It's frankly quite disgusting and a perfect example of why defense attorneys have the reputation that they do.
But it's the judges, not the public, who would be making the decision about reducing White's sentence, and I doubt that a comment like that would sway a judge. I think Dison's just doing her job as a defense attorney.
<i>"Jon White said he has already been exposed to "daily, hourly verbal abuse" from other prison inmates at Joliet who recognize him as the teacher who sexually exploited some of his own first- and second-grade students</i>
Just verbal abuse? I was hoping for something more than that.
White is just going to have to get over it. The rest of his life will be occupied with him being on the receiving end of abuse. He's getting exactly what he deserves. And, when it's all done, he'll rot in hell.
If he'd like any consolation, he can placate himself with the knowledge that if one of the children had been mine he never would have been made it to trial.
But it's the judges, not the public, who would be making the decision about reducing White's sentence, and I doubt that a comment like that would sway a judge. I think Dison's just doing her job as a defense attorney.
You're thinking too short-term. Ten years from now, people are going to look back and go "boy, that's not fair that a guy who masturbated on a blindfold after watching girls eat a banana is still in prison. We need to urge our legislators to ease up on these types of cases." When in reality, that's not what happened at all, but Dison is deliberately planting a misleading seed. That's not right, and it's not 'just doing her job.'
To Anonymous on May 2nd...Are you Judge Clem? It's hard to tell...you obviously are someone who thinks that they know the facts...the fact is that it was a banana...wouldn't you think that if it was indeed something else that the court would have called it that? I guess you must have been in the room when the crimes were committed...or let me guess...you're one of the couple of parents who said that your child was a victim when in reality, there were only so many victims and that you saw$$$. Interesting how after the Urbana district's insurance policy of 10 mil was published two more parents came out of the wood-work.
It was not called something other than a banana because the particular charges that alleged it was something else were negotiated out of the plea. Any references to anything other than a banana could no longer be made in the continuing discussions in sentencing.
Someone is obvioulsy a freind or family member of Mr White's. You're throwing stones at your own glass house....