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| Inmate Sentenced in Prison Killing |
| By The Trentonian |
| Published: 10/21/2002 |
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Convicted by a Mercer County jury of killing a fellow prisoner, New Jersey State Prison inmate Willie 'Rasheed' White now faces spending the rest of his life behind bars. Life without parole was the sentence imposed on the repeat offender by Superior Court Judge Bill Mathesius on October 4 for the June 18, 1998 shank slaying ofKenneth Mahon, 44, of Lawnside, in Camden County. 'Now, there's no question this man will never see the outside of the prison,' Assistant Prosecutor Skylar Weissman commented. White, 40, of Jersey City, was serving 20 to 50 years for robberies when he was convicted in May for the murder of Mahon during a prison basketball game altercation. At the May trial, White testified that he wasn't present at the stabbing and that all state witnesses, including a corrections officer who claimed White unwittingly admitted the killing the next day, conspired against him. While no prison officers saw the stabbing, one inmate among some 300 in the yard that afternoon came forward and pointed out White as the stabber. That prisoner, Ricky Shivers, 40, serving 10 to 25 years for robbery, testified he was once 'afraid for my life' in cooperating with authorities but did so because of his friendship with the victim. |
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