Lawyer will seek to move trial of Alabama jail escapee

FLORENCE, Ala. — A lawyer for an Alabama inmate who was the topic of a nationwide manhunt after escaping with the obvious assist of a jail official, mentioned he’ll ask to maneuver his trial to a different metropolis.

Mark McDaniel, a lawyer representing Casey White, mentioned he’ll search a change of venue to maneuver each his upcoming capital homicide trial, and the separate escape case to a brand new location. When Casey White disappeared, he was awaiting trial on a cost of killing a girl in 2015.

McDaniel mentioned he has additionally acquired threats for representing White.

“At this workplace as we speak and at my house, I’ve had some threats come my manner, bodily threats and threats to property. Let me say this to the those who’s doing that. That’s not gonna make a… little bit of distinction,” he mentioned. McDaniel mentioned it his responsibility to provide White one of the best protection he can.

Casey White and jailer Vicky White disappeared from Lauderdale County Detention Facility on April 29, sparking a manhunt that drew worldwide consideration. The 2 had been captured Could 9 in Evansville, Indiana. Officers mentioned Vicky White died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

McDaniel mentioned he couldn’t focus on particulars of the case. “We do have a narrative to inform,” he mentioned, however added “this story goes to be instructed within the courtroom.”