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Idaho State Journal - Pocatell
11 November 2005
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Ex-police chief sentenced
PRESTON - Hours after former Police Chief Scott Shaw signed a document decertifying him as a law enforcement officer, Sixth District Judge Randy Smith sentenced him to 1-5 years behind bars for criminal misconduct.
Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden filed seven felony charges against Shaw in December. He pleaded guilty to two of them - misuse of public funds and perjury - two months ago as part of a plea agreement. In exchange, prosecutors dismissed five other charges, including multiple counts of falsifying police reports.
“Sometimes language does not allow for the expression of what is in the soul,” Shaw said before learning his fate. “That's where I'm at today.” He also apologized to the public, his family and his friends and said he is proud of what he accomplished in his 28-year career as a cop.
During the hearing, defense attorney Keith Roark of Hailey objected to a pre-sentence report about Shaw. He said it contained details about the five dismissed charges, which should have been omitted because the state never proved them. Smith overruled the objection. He said he would consider the information as “good opinion” rather than fact.
At the center of the charges to which Shaw pleaded guilty is an $882 check given to him in 2003. He was supposed to attend an FBI training academy with the money, but never went. Shaw falsely told an attorney general investigator during a deposition that he put the check into his desk to pay confidential informants in drug investigations.
Prosecutors also said he refused to produce informants when asked to do so.
Roark said Shaw's late son took the signed check and cashed it and Shaw lied to protect him. Roark contended the state didn't have a shred of evidence that Shaw spent any of the money himself. He then said, while he has disdain for those who commit perjury - which he called a “cancer” - he would have done the same thing if in Shaw's shoes.
After reading from the police officers' code of ethics, Assistant Attorney General Jay Rosenthal said regardless of the Shaw's situation, he should have told the truth.
He called Shaw a “crooked cop,” and argued that Shaw's career in law enforcement before becoming Preston's police chief wasn't as upstanding as he would like people to believe.
He said Shaw was fired from his position as an investigator with the attorney general's office in 1994 after he was convicted of a DUI. He also said during Shaw's 18 years with Pocatello police, his record shows instances of drinking on duty, falsification of time sheets and fraternizing with a female sexual assault victim.
Roark objected to the comments and Smith agreed they should not be part of the record.
When it was Shaw's turn to address the court, he said he took the woman to his home to prevent her from killing herself. He said his wife was there and he would do it again if put in the same situation.
He admitted to misusing the check and perjuring himself, but said he wasn't prepared to be “blindsided” repeatedly by Rosenthal about things that had nothing to do with the charges to which he pleaded guilty.
“I'm a crooked cop because I went into defense mode?” he said, referring to his testimony during the deposition. “I've never been so incensed or heard this kind of garbage. ... in the courtroom. I can clearly see what a stacked deck it is.”
He then apologized for the outburst.
Absent from the hearing was a victim's statement from Preston resident Bart Pitcher.
The five dismissed charges stemmed from a 2003 drug case in which Pitcher was convicted of manufacturing methamphetamine and sent to prison. Sixth District Judge Don Harding overturned the conviction in August after a special prosecutor admitted the state violated Pitcher's constitutional rights by “trumping up” evidence against him. Harding ordered that Pitcher be released from prison and his confiscated property returned. One of the items was Pitcher's truck, which Shaw allegedly painted and used as a police vehicle.
Shaw was fired as Preston's police chief in January 2004 when allegations surfaced about his misdeeds in the Pitcher case. He filed a lawsuit seeking $300,000 in damages from the city and $250,000 in punitive damages from Preston Mayor Neal Larson, but later dismissed it without prejudice.
Shaw most recently worked as a contracted policy expert for the Draper City Police Department in Utah.
After pronouncing the sentence Thursday, Smith ordered the former lawman remanded to the custody of the Franklin County sheriff. A tearful Shaw was lead away to begin his sentence in the county jail.
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