Former Ramsey friends request access to some<BR> police files <P> July 4, 2002<P> BOULDER, Colo.- Two former friends of John and Patsy Ramsey want a<BR> judge to grant them access to some of the police files kept in the<BR> JonBenet Ramsey murder investigation.<P> Fleet White Jr. and his wife, Priscilla, have asked officials to turn over<BR> files involving a California woman's claims that the Whites were part of a<BR> child sex abuse ring that contributed to JonBenet's death.<P> Police have said there is no evidence to support the woman's theory.<P> Six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was found strangled in the basement of<BR> her family's home in Dec. 26, 1996. Police have yet to charge anyone in<BR> her death.<P> The Whites requested access to some of the murder investigation files in<BR> a three-page document filed June 24 in Boulder District Court.<P> Police Chief Mark Beckner has repeatedly refused the Whites' request,<BR> saying the file is part of the murder investigation and not subject to<BR> disclosure under the state's criminal justice records laws.<P> Fleet White was with John Ramsey on Dec. 26, 1996, when Ramsey<BR> found JonBenet's body.<P> The night before, the Ramsey family, including JonBenet and her<BR> then-9-year-old brother, Burke, attended a Christmas party at the<BR> Whites' home.<P> In a June 3 letter to Beckner, the Whites said that releasing the records<BR> "will not injure the public interest since the false allegations reported ...<BR> are not the subject of an ongoing police or prosecutor investigation."