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Lil Ricky White
Over the past few years, we at Disclosure have noticed a disturbing trend within Illinois State Police. No longer are ISP investigators working hard to solve serious crimes when they’re called in to a county to help, attempting, as they used to do, doing everything they can to prove a suspect’s innocence before identifying guilt….instead, they’re creating a theory, trying to find evidence to fit that theory, then using that to prove a person’s guilt. Innocent until proven guilty is no longer, apparently, in the operations at ISP.
One of the main culprits of this dangerous new method—which has only developed over the past ten years or so in ISP, when a changeover occurred with a number of long-time investigators retiring—is Rick White of Zone 7 investigations.
And one of the most obvious cases of targeting of a high-profile suspect—whom the state could not prove guilty during a February 2013 trial—is Dr. Jogendra Chhabra, of Marion, who operated a clinic in Norris City when White did his thing two years ago this month.
Here now is the first part of the full story, wherein you’ll see the kind of targeting that is disturbing in its transparency, for your Read the Lead for the day, our page 3 lead, “Targeting of doctor whose case was dismissed continues; with dubious ISP agent at the wheel“:
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WHITE CO.—When sexual assault charges against a Norris City-based doctor were dismissed in late August, most everyone thought the matter was over.
Dr. Jogendra Chhabra faced a jury in February 2013 in White County regarding allegations that he had sexually assaulted a patient while in his Norris City office nearly two years ago.
However, specious testimony by the victim herself, as well as what for all intents and purposes appeared to have been an incomplete report on the part of the lead investigator, lead to a hung jury, and a subsequent mistrial.
After the matter was declared a mistrial, White County State’s Attorney Denton Aud evaluated the case, and things sat in stasis until Aud determined on Aug. 28 that he would not re-file the charges against Chhabra.
In early October, Chhabra, who lives in Marion, filed litigation with the Illinois Department of Professional and Financial Regulation in Cook County in order to have his license restored; his license had been suspended pending outcome of the criminal case and a complaint that Chhabra had seen a patient without a female nurse or office assistant as a chaperone, something he was limited to do after the charge involving Donley.
Four days after that filing was announced, three other women, one of them currently in prison, miraculously “appeared” to file complaints of misconduct against the doctor.
The curious timing of that incident prompted Disclosure to look more carefully into the women making the claims…and under what circumstances.
And the whole thing, it appears, leads right back to Illinois State Police “special agent” Rick White of District 19 in Carmi, who seems willing to stop at nothing to make a high-profile case against someone…and willing to do worse if he loses a case.
Now, in a multi-part series, Disclosure will be showing what appears to be a construct on the part of White to further victimize the doctor, after the state effectively lost the case against Chhabra because of the apparently ineptitude of Rick White.
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