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    Court docs reveal new details in shooting of Coeur d’Alene officer

    By Patrick Erickson
    Myfoxspokane.com

    KHQ is learning disturbing new details about the shooting of Coeur d’Alene Police Sgt. Greg Moore last may and what the man accused of that shooting has been doing while awaiting his trial.

    In documents presented in Kootenai County Court Wednesday, prosecutors amended their notice of intent to seek the death penalty in the case of Jonathan Renfro. Based on evidence, prosecutors are asking a judge to grant their motion to add aggravating circumstances, which would strengthen their case to put Renfro to death.

    After looking at dash cam and body cam footage, prosecutors say Renfro was attempting a burglary at the time Sgt. Moore was killed. The documents say Renfro was seen taking the officer’s gun and searching for his driver’s license after the shooting.

    During an interview with investigators, Renfro confessed to looking for a call to steal for a white supremacist, and associates say he was also running a burglary ring.

    Prosecutors also say that while Renfro has been in jail, he has made weapons, planned to escape, harmed corrections officers and violently threatened other inmates.

    According to the documents, Renfro was seen laughing and smiling while talking over video phone about his charges. He also justified the killing of Sgt. Moore as being noble, saying cops would “think twice” before being aggressive with individuals. The prosecutors’ motion also states that before the shooting happened, Renfro showed a gun to a woman, saying a bullet in the magazine was a “cop killer” bullet.

    KHQ spoke briefly with the Kootenai County Prosecutors Office Wednesday about the motion, but they told us they couldn’t speak about the case, which is set to go to trial in February.

    http://www.myfoxspokane.com/court-do...alene-officer/
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    JUDGE REJECTS MOTIONS ON DEATH PENALTY

    By Keith Cousins
    The Bonner County Daily Bee

    COEUR d'ALENE — Additional attempts at taking the death penalty off the table for the man accused of murdering Coeur d'Alene Police Sgt. Greg Moore fell short Monday.

    But, Kootenai County District Court Judge Lansing Haynes has yet to rule on two others.

    Jonathan Renfro, a 26-year-old Rathdrum resident who allegedly admitted to killing Moore in a Coeur d'Alene neighborhood on May 5, 2015, currently faces the death penalty if found guilty of charges associated with the incident. In a series of hearings in Kootenai County District Court beginning last week, Haynes has heard arguments from the team of public defenders representing Renfro as to why their client should not face execution for reasons ranging from international law to the nature of the encounter Moore had with Renfro prior to the shooting.

    Monday's hearing began with Kootenai County Public Defender John Adams stating Moore's interaction with Renfro around 1:30 a.m. constituted an unreasonable seizure. Renfro walking in the Coeur d'Alene neighborhood was legal, and Adams said the experienced officer was "acting on a hunch" when he approached the Rathdrum man.

    "Unfortunately it's a hunch that went terribly wrong," Adams added.

    Once Moore asked for and received Renfro's driver's license, Adams said the encounter went from being consensual to one where any individual would come to the conclusion they were not free to leave. Due to Adams' assertion that his client’s "seizure" by Moore was unconstitutional, the public defender challenged Haynes to suppress all evidence gathered from the officer's dashboard camera, and to not allow the death penalty to be pursued by the Kootenai County Prosecutors Office.

    "First degree murder has to go away, it's got to be a second degree murder," Adams said. "It's a big call, but the law is pretty straightforward."

    Kootenai County Deputy Prosecutor David Robbins, however, argued Renfro was not "seized" by Moore. To fall under the legal definition of the term, Robbins said Renfro had to have either been surrendering to law enforcement authority or physically restrained.

    "The moment he pulled that trigger, he was not unconstitutionally seized," Robbins said. "A person who is seized does not shoot a police officer."

    Following arguments, Haynes told the courtroom he would issue a ruling on Adams' motion during a hearing on Oct. 12.

    Haynes denied two other motions made by the public defender's office that also asked the judge to not allow the death penalty to be among the potential punishments for Renfro. Kootenai County Public Defender Linda Payne presented arguments for both of the motions, the first of which involved the assertion that the use of capital punishment in America conflicts with international law, which she said has deemed the practice "cruel and unusual punishment" due to the amount of time it takes before a prisoner on death row is executed.

    However, Haynes agreed with Robbins' counter-argument that the international law in question allows for individual countries to still use capital punishment.

    The second motion Payne argued asked Haynes to preclude the death penalty because "evolving standards of decency" have caused pursuit of death as punishment to decrease. In some states, Payne said the practice has been essentially abolished by the act of not imposing the death penalty.

    "The respect for human life and rights does not include imposing the death penalty," Payne added.

    Robbins told Haynes a shift in the amount of capital cases does not mean the practice itself is unconstitutional. He added there is no indication the Idaho Legislature plans on eliminating the death penalty in the state.

    Haynes agreed with Robbins and denied the motion. The judge will issue rulings on two more motions at 9:00 a.m. on Oct. 12.

    http://www.bonnercountydailybee.com/..._death_penalty
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    With that body camera video, that's pretty ironclad evidence and he should get the DP no questions asked.

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    Judge denies Renfro's motion to avoid death penalty

    COEUR D' ALENE, Idaho --- A Kootenai County Judge denied Jonathan Renfro’s motion to eliminate the death penalty as a form of punishment on Wednesday.

    Renfro is accused of killing Coeur d’Alene police Sgt. Greg Moore in May of 2015.

    Moore stopped Renfro while walking through a Coeur d’Alene neighborhood that had become the victim of recent car burglaries.

    Investigators said Renfro pulled out a gun, shot Moore, took the officer’s gun and then sped off in his car.

    At a pretrial hearing, a judge refused to eliminate execution as a form of punishment. He also denied Renfro’s motion to have his first degree murder charge dismissed.

    Renfro’s attorneys cited international law and specifics about his encounter with Moore as reasons he should not face the death penalty.

    Renfro’s jury trial is scheduled to begin in February.

    http://www.krem.com/news/local/koote...alty/334987663
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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    MURDER TRIAL DETAILS SHAPING UP

    The Bonner County Daily Bee

    COEUR d’ALENE — Kootenai County prosecutors want Jonathan Renfro to have his day in court.
    Soon.

    “As we know, cases do not age like wine. They age like milk,” Deputy Prosecutor David Robbins said Friday in front of First District Judge Lansing Haynes.

    When Renfro, 26, the accused killer of Coeur d’Alene Police Sgt. Greg Moore, faces a jury this summer, more than two years will have passed since Moore was shot while patrolling a Coeur d’Alene neighborhood.

    Haynes solidified a July 31 trial date and allowed for the public defender’s office to select from one of two Idaho attorneys with death-penalty expertise to serve as Renfro’s lead attorney.

    “Delays in the case are attributable to the lengthy, appropriate pre-trial motion practice,” Haynes said. “I’m not assigning any blame for unnecessary delays because I don’t think the delays were unnecessary at all.”

    Renfro faces the death penalty if found guilty.

    At a previous hearing, Seattle-based attorney Mark Larranaga was put forward by the public-defender’s office to serve as the lead attorney in the case. However, Haynes was concerned about delaying the case because Larranaga is unavailable to represent Renfro until early 2018.

    Haynes asked Kootenai County Public Defender Linda Paine to seek out any Idaho attorneys who have been qualified by the state’s supreme court to serve as lead counsel in a death penalty case. Paine found two, Caldwell-based defense attorney Scott Fouser and Twin-Falls based defense attorney Keith Roark.

    Both attorneys were in the courtroom at the Kootenai County jail on Friday, and briefly spoke with Haynes about their availability. Fouser and Roark said they would be able to represent Renfro at the end of July, but both attorneys added they need time to prepare.

    “I don’t know any trial attorney who doesn’t prefer to do things later rather than sooner, for that reason,” Roark said.

    Haynes said it was not necessary for him to appoint either attorney as lead counsel, and left the matter to Renfro and the public defender’s office. Paine said she could submit their selection by Tuesday.

    The jury trial will begin on July 31. Haynes estimated it will take five to eight weeks.

    After the hearing, Roark and Fouser shook hands with and introduced themselves to Renfro.

    http://www.bonnercountydailybee.com/...ils_shaping_up
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    MOTIONS DENIED IN RENFRO CASE

    The Bonner County Daily Bee

    COEUR d'ALENE — Wearing glasses with his jail suit, Jonathan Renfro, the man accused of killing Coeur d’Alene Police Sgt. Greg Moore, appeared chatty and upbeat with his public defenders Friday afternoon.

    He wasn't smiling after Judge Lansing Haynes denied a series of the defense's motions, though, including a motion to strike the death penalty.

    The defense briefly argued that the statutes in the case are in violation of the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution against cruel and unusual punishment.

    Renfro's camp also argued there was too much discretion and the system arbitrarily chooses who should receive the death penalty or a life sentence.

    There was also a motion relating to juror's qualification which was also denied.

    Also among the motions was an attempt to strike the aggravating circumstance in the alleged homicide. That motion was also denied based on legal analysis.

    Back in October, motions to take execution off the table for Renfro were also denied.

    Renfro allegedly admitted shooting Moore in the face in a Coeur d'Alene neighborhood in May 2015. Moore had stopped Renfro, who was walking down a sidewalk in the middle of the night. Moore called in Renfro's driver's license information to central dispatch moments before the shooting.

    The trial is set to begin July 31.

    http://www.bonnercountydailybee.com/...in_renfro_case
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    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    Trial for man accused of killing Sgt. Moore will stay in Kootenai Co.

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    KOOTENAI COUNTY, Idaho --- The man accused of killing Sgt. Greg Moore more than two years ago and driving off with his car is still expected to be tried in Coeur d'Alene, despite media coverage of the case, though the jurors may be sequestered.

    Jonathan Renfro, the man charged with killing Moore in Coeur d’Alene then driving off in Moore’s car will be tried in Coeur d’Alene. The suspect’s lawyers argued because of all the publicity the crime got, it would not be a fair trial. The murder and the community’s reaction dominated local headlines for days after the crime. Even now, many people have stickers with Moore’s call sign on their cars in northern Idaho.

    According to court documents, the suspect’s team polled potential jurors and argued the results showed most of the potential jurors had knowledge of the case. Because of this, he would not receive a fair trial.

    Judge Lansing Haynes, who is overseeing the case, disagreed. On June 1, he filed his decision, and said the news reports were not “designed to inflame the passion of potential jurors.”

    Court documents said both the prosecutors and the defense were asked about sequestering the jury during the trial and both parties argued against it. In the end, it will be Judge Haynes’ decision whether to sequester the jury or not.

    The trial is set to start in September and is expected to last around six weeks.

    http://www.krem.com/news/local/the-s...ered/444998420
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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    DRUG WITNESS OK FOR MURDER TRIAL

    COEUR d’ALENE — A judge signed off Thursday on a request by prosecutors to have a state inmate shipped to Kootenai County to be a witness in this month’s murder trial.

    First District Judge Lansing Haynes, who is presiding over the Jonathan Renfro murder trial, granted a motion by prosecutors to have the witness released from prison and transported to Coeur d’Alene for the Sept. 11 trial.

    Renfro is accused in the 2015 killing of Coeur d’Alene Police Sgt. Greg Moore. He faces the death penalty if he’s found guilty of first-degree murder.

    At Thursday’s hearing in Courtroom 12 at the Kootenai County jail, prosecutor Barry McHugh said the female witness, Jennifer Doane, 29, who was sentenced this year to a five-year prison term for drug possession, was involved in a drug transaction with Renfro prior to the early morning shooting in a northwest Coeur d’Alene neighborhood near Atlas Avenue.

    Doane injected Renfro with methamphetamine and was aware that the 29-year-old had a firearm, according to prosecutors.

    Because Doane is enrolled in a prison rider program — a rehabilitation program that can last up to a year and will determine if she is a good candidate for probation — Haynes was at first reluctant to have Doane as a witness because it could interrupt her rehabilitation.

    “Is there another way to prove the things you’re calling (the witness) to prove?” Haynes asked.

    McHugh said the convict’s testimony is necessary.

    “She would be the best person to testify ... relative to the methamphetamine and displaying the handgun and talking about the bullets,” McHugh said. “(She) historically as a whole is the best person to testify.”

    Haynes allowed the state to narrow down the date of a transport order so the witness would miss the least number of rehabilitation days, and attorneys said the witness would likely be housed at a jail in a neighboring county so she will not mix with inmates in the Kootenai County jail where Renfro is being housed.

    Another motion hearing is set for this afternoon.

    Renfro’s Sept. 11 trial is expected to last around six weeks, with two weeks set aside for jury selection. Renfro is being held in the Kootenai County jail without bond.

    http://www.cdapress.com/article/2017...ICLE/170909987

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    TRIO WON’T TESTIFY AGAINST RENFRO

    By RALPH BARTHOLDT
    The Coeur d'Alene Press

    COEUR d’ALENE — A judge denied a motion Friday for three inmates to be transported from prison to testify against Jonathan Renfro in this month’s murder trial in Coeur d’Alene.

    The inmates were former acquaintances of Renfro’s and part of a list of five potential witnesses who are behind bars and who prosecutors want to appear at the Sept. 11 trial.

    First District Judge Lansing Haynes said he had to weigh the importance of their testimony against the impact that testifying would have on the witnesses.

    Being transported to Coeur d’Alene to appear in court could interrupt the potential witnesses’ stringent rehabilitation programs, jeopardize the outcome of probation or parole hearings, and raise immunity issues, Haynes said.

    Renfro, 29, who is in the Kootenai County jail without bond, is charged with first-degree murder in the 2015 killing of Coeur d’Alene Police Sgt. Greg Moore. He faces the death penalty if he’s found guilty.

    Prosecutor Barry McHugh was granted an order by Haynes at Friday’s hearing to have Austin M. Scarborough, 22, of Post Falls, appear for this month’s trial. Scarborough who is behind bars for a burglary conviction allegedly purchased the handgun used in the shooting, prosecutors said.

    “We believe he is able to testify regarding Mr. Renfro’s request to obtain a firearm for him,” McHugh said. “Nobody else is able to testify because Mr. Scarborough was involved in the conversation himself.”

    Haynes also allowed Michael J. McNearney, 27, of Priest River, who is serving time for rape and theft convictions, to testify for the state. The state expected McNearney to testify regarding Renfro’s alleged assault on a police officer, McHugh said.

    The judge put on hold a motion to have Cody W. Parmer, 27, of Lewiston, testify for the state. Parmer, who is serving time for rape and failure to register as a sex offender, allegedly planned a burglary with Renfro. He could help the state rebut an argument by the defense that Renfro is impulsive and incapable of premeditation, McHugh said.

    After arguments from Kootenai County defense attorneys Jed Nixon and Douglas Pierce, the judge denied motions to transport Russell W. Irby, 21, of Coeur d’Alene, who is behind bars for a robbery conviction, and Warren J. Watson Jr., 26, who is serving time for burglary and a firearms conviction.

    Nixon argued Irby is completing a rider and must still face off with prosecutors to be granted probation. His testimony raises immunity issues.

    “Especially since the state would be on the other side determining what his future holds,” Nixon said.

    Pierce questioned what his client could bring to the table since the last time Watson and Renfo hung out was a decade ago.

    “My client has already stated that his memory regarding Renfro will be thin,” Pierce said. “Rightfully, he will probably say, ‘I can’t remember,’”

    In a Friday order Haynes said he would allow one camera in the courtroom during the trial that is scheduled for six weeks. Media is allowed to use cellphones but is prohibited from transmitting court proceedings.

    Another pretrial hearing is scheduled Wednesday.

    http://www.cdapress.com/article/2017...ICLE/170909947

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    Accused CDA cop killer pleads guilty to lesser charges, still faces first degree murder charge

    By KREM News Staff

    COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho — A man accused of murdering Coeur d’Alene police Sergeant Greg Moore entered a guilty plea Thursday to two charges.

    Jonathan Renfro pleaded guilty to grand theft and eluding a police officer. He did not plead guilty to the first degree murder charge he also faces.

    Officials said sentencing for the two charges he pleaded guilty to will happen after the first degree murder trial is over. Jury selection for the first degree murder trial starts Monday.

    http://www.ktvb.com/news/crime/man-p...eant/472061441
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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