Trooper on leave amid perjury allegation
A veteran state trooper accused of perjury in an Idaho Supreme Court decision that vacated a murder conviction has been placed on paid leave.
Cpl. Fred Rice is accused of lying on the stand during the road rage trial of Jonathan Wade Ellington of Athol, who was convicted of second-degree murder for running over a woman on New Years Day 2006. Ellington is serving a 25-year prison sentence.
Read the full statement from Idaho State Police at the Eye on Boise blog.