by chiggerbit » Sun Aug 20, 2006 3:21 pm
<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>and I am especially interested in what has become of Krebs recently, and what she may have to say about developements re</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> Ditto. <br><br>I just edited above re a criminal investigation involving her report.<br><br><br><br> Shades of the Franklin child sex ring and the sentencing of the girl (Alisha Owens, maybe?) for something like 15 years for "perjury".<br><br><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline">denver.rockymountainnews....ibe3.shtml</span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END--> <br><br><br>Criminal-libel inquiry targets journalists in Ramsey case <br>Probe linked to suggestion that girl died in sex party <br><br>By Karen Abbott<br>Denver Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer<br><br><br><br>Several news organizations and journalists are targets of a Boulder police investigation into whether they criminally libeled Ramsey murder case witness Fleet White.<br><br>Denver lawyer Tom Kelley, a specialist in libel and other First Amendment issues, said Friday the criminal libel statute has never been used against a news organization or journalist.<br><br>Boulder Assistant District Attorney Bill Wise said Friday that "multiple" organizations and journalists are being investigated, but he would not identify them.<br><br>The investigation focuses on reports earlier this year that a California woman had suggested 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey died during an adult sexual party.<br><br>The California woman said she had suffered years of abuse from a group of adults who forced children to submit to asphyxiation techniques for sexual purposes. A garrote was found around JonBenet's neck after her death. Autopsy reports said the child had been strangled and struck on the head.<br><br>The woman said she knew relatives of White, who was a close friend of John and Patsy Ramsey when their daughter died in 1996. Boulder police have said White is not a suspect in the child's murder, for which no one has been charged.<br><br>Police and prosecutors who investigated the woman's claims found no basis for her theory about JonBenet's death.<br><br>The Boulder Daily Camera said Thursday it is a target of the investigation.<br><br>Wise said the police investigation, requested earlier this month by White and his wife, has produced a 600-page file.<br><br>The file will be turned over to a special prosecutor because the Boulder DA's office has a conflict of interest, Wise said, due to District Attorney Alex Hunter's early statement that he found the California woman's assertions believable. Wise said that Hunter quickly retracted the statement, but that it probably would make him a witness in the case.<br><br>The special prosecutor will decide whether anyone should be charged with criminal libel, a felony punishable by up to two years in prison and a fine of up to $100,000.<br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=chiggerbit@rigorousintuition>chiggerbit</A> at: 8/20/06 1:28 pm<br></i>