Jackson, MS- Attorney General Jim Hood confirmed the guilty pleas of Dr. Paul White today in Tupelo. 

White, entered a guilty plea to one felony count of Cyberstalking, under the provisions of §97-45-15.  He waived indictment and entered the plea to a Bill of Information charging him with having sent an email to a witness/family member of a victim stating, “Hey ____ ____, When did you go completely psychotic?  You ’ll never feel the bullet in the back of your head.  Maybe a brief flash of light as your brain explodes, but probably no pain.  Oh well, can’t have everything.  I hope you burn in hell.” He also sent another message stating, “We know who you are now.  You have no f----ing idea how much sh-t you are in.  If I were you, I would f- _____ one more time then hit the road and disappear.  If you don’t, I can promise you I will rip off your head and sh-t down your neck.  And lover boy _______ the good preacher man can suffocate on his own sliced-off d--k before we disembowel his a- and feed his guts to our hogs.  I sh-t you not.”

The Attorney General’s Cybercrime Unit obtained subpoenas and learned that the message came from White’s home.  A search warrant and forensic examination of his laptop revealed that he sent the messages.

The Judge placed White on non-adjudicated status for two years on the condition of successful completion of the terms and conditions of his probation and non-adjudicated status.  As a condition of the probation, Dr. White is under a duty to cooperate and testify truthfully in any trial or other hearings against nurse Marilyn Lehman, a co-indictee in the related misdemeanor case.  In addition, he was ordered to pay $1,000 to the Crime Victim’s Fund, a fine of $5,000, $2,500 for costs of investigation to the Cyber Crime Unit of the Office of the Attorney General, and court costs.

White also entered a guilty plea to six counts of aiding and abetting the practice of medicine without a license by allowing nurses to illegally prescribe and inject patients with extremely excessive amounts of drugs. (§97-23-43).  On that plea, he was sentenced to a $150 fine for each count and ordered to pay costs of court.  As part of the plea, 11 counts of the indictment (case #CR 08-438) charging misdemeanor neglect of a vulnerable adult were dismissed.  At the request of family members of five victims, five counts of the indictment charging aiding and assisting nurses in the practice of medicine without a license were also dismissed.

General Hood stated, “I just hope that the bad actions of an employee do not reflect poorly on the fine work being done by the hospice.” Hood continued, “We had two doctors who teach at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in toxicology and hospice and one national expert from the Cleveland Clinic who were adamant that the excessive dosages given the patients were causing pain in the victims, rather than relieving pain.  Even the experts for the defense agreed that 3,000 dosage units of morphine per day given to a patient was the most ever recorded, yet one patient at hospice received 67,000 dosage units in one day.”