Published on Tuesday, August 19, 2008
By RICHARD BROOKS
Suffering from multiple ailments, a repeat rapist shuffled into court Tuesday carrying a white cane and pulling a wheeled tank of oxygen to help him breathe.
He left with a heavier burden: a prison term of 125 years to life. He didn't go quietly.
"This girl lied," 55-year-old William Earl White insisted during his sentencing hearing in San Bernardino County Superior Court. "For once in my life, I'm not guilty."
His four previous rape convictions in the 1970s and early 1980s had wrongly swayed investigators and jurors in this case, he argued.
White's emotional protest of his conviction -- and his criticisms of the victim, the prosecutor, the defense attorney and even the judge -- prompted the victim to hurry from the courtroom in tears.
Before White accused her of concocting her allegations, the woman urged Judge Brian McCarville to imprison White for so long that he will never again attack another woman
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