Casey White’s new lawyer suggests threats towards him won’t have an impact on case
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – Mark McDaniel was retained as Casey White’s law firm Wednesday afternoon and due to the fact then has been given a lot of threats at equally his business and residence, McDaniel mentioned at a push meeting Thursday afternoon.
The jail escape circumstance of Casey White from the Lauderdale County Jail and the 11-day manhunt that followed drew intercontinental consideration. Officials said White’s jailer Vicky White (no relation) died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound the working day they had been captured in Evansville, Indiana.
Casey White’s mother and daughter assisted him retain new legal counsel that features attorneys Mark McDaniel, Robert Tuten, Nickolas Heatherly, Marcus Helstowski and Nicholas Lough.
McDaniel resolved the media in an emotional and pointed assertion. He stated the social media phenomenon all around the circumstance and stated he has been obtaining threats considering that taking about White’s pending cases.
“At this office and at my household, I have experienced some threats come my way, actual physical threats and threats to home. Let me say this to the people that are executing that. That is not gonna make a d*mn little bit of difference. All the phone calls and all the threats that you make are not heading to make a bit of difference. I have been practicing law for 45 several years, I have been threatened in every single way you can be threatened and I have been accused about all the things. If you want to preserve carrying out that you just maintain on doing it. It’s not likely to impact the way that we depict this man. We’re likely to give him the ideal protection that we can quite possibly give. If you want to simply call and you want to threaten my daily life or what ever you want to threaten, you go ahead and have at it. It is not likely to impact anything at all that we do in this circumstance. I want to make that apparent,” McDaniel reported.
McDaniel did not show the source at the rear of the threats.
White is at the moment getting held in the Donaldson Correctional Facility in Birmingham. McDaniel reported they hope to be in court docket on June 20 for a probable lead to hearing for the escape situation.
McDaniel extra, “Everything is likely to arrive out in the courtroom, this story is likely to get told… We do have a story to convey to.”