Former Mo. inmate says he’s still trying to get justice years after conviction was overturned

Man whose conviction was overturned still fighting

LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. — A former Missouri man who was wrongfully convicted of molesting his 12-year-old stepdaughter is trying to get a Kansas City suburb to pay a multimillion-dollar court judgment against a former detective.

Ted White Jr. spent six years behind bars before he was released after an appeals court threw out his original conviction and a jury acquitted him.

It turned out the detective who led the investigation was having an affair with White’s estranged wife.

White won a $16 million civil judgment against his ex-wife and the detective.

The city says it can’t honor an earlier agreement to pay any judgment against the detective because a local ordinance bars it from indemnifying an employee who violates someone’s constitutional rights.