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    Renfro to fellow inmate: 'That's what you get when you marry a cop'

    By Amanda Roley
    KREM News

    COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho – Jonathan Renfro appeared in front of a judge Monday for the first day of the aggravation phase of his murder trial.

    Renfro was found guilty Friday of first-degree murder in the death of Coeur d’Alene Police Sergeant Greg Moore. He was also found guilty of removing a firearm from a police officer, concealing a firearm, and robbery. Renfro killed Sergeant Moore in May of 2015.

    The state called on nine witnesses Monday and most were Kootenai County deputies.

    During opening statements the defense argued that any threats Renfro made while in jail were a result of him being provoked and “treated like an animal.”

    The court heard testimony from Deputy Steve Malcom. Malcom told the jury Renfro said he had intentions to kill another inmate due to constant disrespect and harassment. Deputy Malcom also told the jury Renfro demonstrated how he could turn a towel into a baseball bat.

    Another deputy testified about the same demonstration and told the jury Renfro said making the towel wet would make it harder and could “crack our skulls in.” The defense asked each deputy if Renfro ever harmed an inmate or detention officer while in jail and each deputy answered no.

    The state brought up a conversation Renfro had with inmate Denver Hart about Sgt.Greg Moore's family.

    According to Hart, Renfro said, "That's what you get when you marry a cop." The judge decided he will not allow Hart to talk about that statement regarding Sgt. Moore's family if he is called to testify.

    The prosecution is seeking the death penalty in the aggravation phase of the trial. In this phase, prosecutors are trying to show that Renfro has the potential to commit another murder.

    For the death penalty sentence to be on the table prosecutors will have to prove that Renfro murdered Sgt. Moore because he was an officer, there was intent to burglarize or rob Sgt. Moore, or that Renfro is a continued threat to society.

    The state plans to continue its case Tuesday and the jury could begin deliberations by the end of the day.

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    ONE STEP CLOSER TO DEATH PENALTY

    By RALPH BARTHOLDT
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    COEUR d’ALENE — Jurors agreed Tuesday that aggravating factors surrounding Jonathan D. Renfro’s actions before and after he murdered Coeur d’Alene Police Sgt. Greg Moore call for a stiffer penalty.

    The 12-member panel deliberated for almost four hours in Coeur d’Alene’s First District Court before rendering the verdict around 7:30 p.m., pushing the trial into its third phase, the mitigation phase.

    The mitigation phase will begin Monday at 9 a.m. in Courtroom 1 of the old Kootenai County courthouse.

    Renfro was convicted last week in First District Court of first-degree murder for killing Moore by shooting him in the face with a 9mm handgun.

    But according to Idaho law the case can’t proceed toward the death penalty until jurors agree that aggravating circumstances existed to increase the culpability of the defendant.

    State law allows both sides to bring evidence before a jury. Starting next week, Renfro’s defense team will take center stage to argue on behalf of their client’s lack of malevolence.

    Before delivering the verdict Tuesday evening, the jury spent the day listening to testimony from the state’s witnesses as prosecutors built a case to show that Renfro was a persistent danger to the public.

    One of the witnesses, Denver Hart, who is serving 20 years to life for killing his stepfather, burning the body to dispose evidence, and for a conviction of having sex with a 14-year-old girl with autism, told the court Renfro admitted to deliberately shooting Moore in the face.

    Hart met Renfro in a maximum security pen at the county jail two years ago and the two were confidants for a few months before Hart was shipped to prison.

    Renfro reportedly told Hart he was a collector and enforcer — a person who collects drug debts and metes out harm to users who can’t pay the dealer — and that he was burgling cars on the night he killed Moore.

    “He told me he aimed and shot him in the face,” Hart, stocky, bald, bearded and dressed in red prison pajamas with three tiers of shackles, told a quiet jury. “(He said) the best place to shoot a pig was to shoot him in the face” because police officers wear body armor.

    Defense attorneys during the first phase of the trial argued their client had accidentally shot Moore in the face, while prosecutors said it had been a calculated shot. The admission could be construed as an aggravating factor, and could be used to argue for Renfro’s execution.

    Hart, 48, who was transported from Boise to testify for prosecutors, spent most of his time on the stand responding to barbs from defense counsel. To discredit Hart, death penalty attorney Keith Roark painted the witness as a ruthless killer, liar, child rapist, and the prosecutor’s patsy who offered evidence to gain favor. He couldn’t be trusted with the truth.

    “The idea was you would get some leniency,” Roark told Hart, who objected.

    “I didn’t think about that at the time,” Hart said.

    “You concealed evidence,” Roark said. “You not only shot and killed your stepfather, you burned his body to conceal evidence.”

    “Yes sir.”

    “And you groomed this 14-year-old girl,” Roark said. “You put yourself in a position where she would rely on you.”

    “That’s not how it worked.”

    Another state witness in whom Renfro reportedly confided a plan to escape by taking a jailer hostage was transported from prison to testify Tuesday, but refused to cooperate with prosecutors.

    Michael McNearney, who is in prison on a rape and theft conviction, could not remember divulging Renfro’s plan to jail staff. He stuck to one answer as prosecutors repeatedly asked what he know of the breakout plan.

    “I have no recollection of that,” McNearney said.

    In turn, prosecutors called as a witness the retired detention deputy who remembered the incident.

    Linda Simmons told jurors she received a note from McNearney when he shared a pod with Renfro, and met with him in the jail’s law library. McNearney exposed the plan, Simmons said, because he was afraid someone would be hurt.

    The state also called Randy Krieg, 61, another jail inmate who Renfro allegedly threatened to kill because he felt Krieg showed him disrespect by calling him a punk.

    Krieg however, said Renfro’s threat was hollow and not meant to be taken literally.

    “If little Johnny wants to kill me, put us in the same cell and I’ll give him a good little butt whooping and we’ll figure it out our own way,” Krieg said.

    Prosecutors asked Krieg if he was afraid to tell jurors the truth because he feared being labeled a “snitch.”

    “I’ve been called a snitch 14 times and never said nothing to nobody,” Krieg said. “I’ve been called a rat and a thief … all they know how to do is spout off … there’s no basis for it.”

    But correction deputy Steve Malcolm said Krieg voiced concern over Renfro’s threats.

    “If Krieg said he never talked to deputies about Mr. Renfro …?” Deputy Prosecutor David Robins asked.

    “That would be a lie,” Malcolm replied.

    In his closing arguments, Robins reiterated that Renfro shot Moore because he was an on-duty officer, which constitutes an aggravating circumstance. Robins said the defendant killed Moore to perpetrate robbery and while he was on the prowl to further commit burglary. Witnesses had testified that Renfro was easily provoked, and that the slightest antagonism resulted in death threats.

    “A man willing to kill someone who called him punk,” Robins said. “That is a propensity to murder.”

    With their verdict, jurors moved Renfro one step closer to being executed.

    The trial is the first capital trial in the First District Court since 1999 when Scott Yager faced the death penalty after being convicted of killing Idaho State Police Trooper Linda Huff. Yager was eventually found to be mentally disabled and wasn’t executed. So far, Renfro has not taken the stand in the trial that began last month.

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    Potential death penalty for Renfro may trigger decades of costly appeals

    By Thomas Clouse
    The Spokesman-Review

    If a jury decides this week that Jonathan D. Renfro should receive the death penalty for killing Coeur d’Alene police Sgt. Greg Moore, many of the jurors may never see their sentence carried out.

    If history holds true, six corrections officers more than 20 years from now would walk Renfro into a room to strap him to an execution table. They would wear surgical masks and goggles to hide their identities.

    One of them would insert an intravenous line to inject a lethal concoction of drugs. They also would place an electrode on Renfro’s chest to confirm his passing.

    And in the meantime, the 29-year-old convicted killer’s prosecution and appeals would have cost Idaho taxpayers much more than if the state had sent him to a prison cell, to reside 23 hours a day until the moment of his inevitable end.

    “The cost is prohibitive,” said Andrea George, executive director of the Federal Defenders of Eastern Washington and Idaho. “The average citizen doesn’t understand the complexity of death penalty litigation.”

    A law enforcement source, who was not authorized to speak on behalf of those involved with the case, told The Spokesman-Review last week that Kootenai County Prosecutor Barry McHugh predicted the cost of Renfro’s trial will exceed $1 million. Defense attorneys had offered to have Renfro plead guilty to the May 5, 2015, killing and receive life in prison to avoid the death penalty, but McHugh refused under pressure from Moore’s loved ones and law enforcement.

    None of the prosecutors or defense attorneys has been willing to discuss any aspect of the case after 1st District Judge Lansing Haynes placed them under a gag order prior to the start of the Sept. 11 trial.

    Legal hurdles just beginning

    If the jury decides death for Renfro, he would join seven convicted men and one woman on Idaho’s death row.

    Gem State prison officials last executed an inmate, Richard A. Leavitt, in 2012. He was convicted in 1984 of killing Danette Elg, of Blackfoot.

    Leavitt was only the third inmate executed in Idaho since 1957. His appeals took almost a quarter-century to exhaust.

    George said Renfro potentially could appeal his death sentence directly to the Idaho Supreme Court. If that body upholds the death penalty, Renfro then could appeal it to federal court, the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals and finally seek to have his case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court.

    The state would have to pay for prosecutors and defense attorneys throughout. Family members may be forced to relive the killing time and time again until the case winds its way through the courts, she said.

    “If it ever made it to the death penalty, it would be the ‘Eye for an eye,’ ” she said. “But it will cost a hell of a lot of money and put stress on the victims and the victim’s family.”

    The alternative, life in prison, would force the family to face the killer only once, at sentencing. “Not to mention life in prison in a maximum-security facility is not a pleasant way to spend your days,” George said.

    Legacy of death penalty

    Earlier this month, Renfro was convicted of firing a stolen gun at Moore, striking the officer in the mouth after Moore encountered the convicted felon just after midnight on a residential street.

    The last time Kootenai County residents endured a similar crime was in June 1998, when Scott D. Yager ambushed Idaho State Police Trooper Linda Huff.

    Yager waited outside the ISP office in Hayden and opened fire near midnight, striking Huff a dozen times. She was able to radio for help and return fire until her gun was damaged. Huff hit Yager twice before dying from her injuries.

    A jury convicted Yager in 1999 and then-Kootenai County Prosecutor Bill Douglas sought to reverse now-retired 1st District Judge James Judd’s life sentence and reinstate the death penalty. The Idaho Supreme Court later determined that Judd’s ruling was “reasonable.”

    Six years later, the death penalty again came into play for arguably the worst killer to come through North Idaho: Joseph E. Duncan.

    A jury sentenced Duncan to consecutive life sentences after he was convicted of killing three people with a claw hammer in 2005 after driving by on Interstate 90 and seeing two small children in swimming suits playing in the yard.

    Federal authorities prosecuted Duncan for abducting Shasta and Dylan Groene, whom Duncan tortured before killing the 9-year-old boy near a campsite in Montana. A federal jury sentenced Duncan to death in 2008.

    Duncan is one of 61 people on federal death row. Only three federally convicted killers have been executed since the death penalty was reinstated in 1988. The last federal inmate put to death was Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, in 2001.

    A study by the Idaho Legislature in 2014 showed that the cost of death penalty cases far outweighed the price of other murder investigations. Part of that expense came from state guidelines that require two certified defense attorneys to represent each death-penalty suspect, and the cost of appeals.

    “At least three recent studies have found very few eligible defendants were sentenced to death, a large percentage of death sentences were overturned or reversed, defendants were dying in prison with pending appeals, and only a small number of executions actually took place,” the study said.

    George noted that the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., listed some 160 cases nationally where convicts on death row were either exonerated, had their charges dismissed by prosecutors or judges, or were granted a pardon based on evidence of innocence.

    Although it directly leads to the higher costs of litigation, the rounds of legal challenges serve a purpose, George said.

    “You can’t eliminate the layers of appeals. They are the safety net of the permanency of the sentence,” she said. “There is nothing more immoral than the state putting an innocent person to death.”

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    Renfro Trial Nearing End

    By RALPH BARTHOLDT
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    COEUR d’ALENE — In a courtroom where the number of audience members has dwindled to a handful, attorneys for Jonathan D. Renfro on Tuesday went on the defensive as their evidence was picked apart by a state’s expert.

    Tuesday’s proceedings started on time, but were cut short midday as prosecutors waited for additional experts that were not scheduled to testify until today.

    The once-packed courtroom, where bench seats had been reserved for family members, media, attorneys and security officers, has slowly emptied as the trial grinds into its sixth week.

    Renfro, 29, who has been found guilty of killing Coeur d’Alene Police Sgt. Greg Moore by shooting him in the face two years ago, faces the death penalty.

    Before the first rebuttal witness was called Tuesday, and after the defense rested its mitigation efforts, presiding Judge Lansing Haynes said he expected to wrap up proceedings within the next couple of days.

    “I expect this case will get to the jury this week,” Haynes said. “That’s what we’ll shoot for.”

    As their first witness, prosecutors called a Columbia University statistics professor to refute evidence by a defense expert who used a brain scan combined with statistical data to show that Renfro suffered traumatic brain injuries.

    In their efforts to show their client shouldn’t be put to death because mitigating circumstances can be blamed for his actions, Renfro’s defense team argued the many head injuries Renfro suffered made him impulsive and irresponsible, The result of those injuries though has been alleviated recently by therapeutic medications, attorneys said.

    But Ian McKeague called the evidence of traumatic brain injury rubbish.

    McKeague, a professor of biostatistics, said defense expert Robert Adler’s methods used to show a disorder in the defendant’s brain were faulty. McKeague said the forensic psychiatrist was dishonest in his representation of the data.

    “The method of his approach is flawed,” McKeague said. “If it’s garbage in, then it’s garbage out.”

    Defense attorney Jay Logsdon challenged McKeague’s analysis, but the statistician wouldn’t budge, instead he further accused Adler of attempting to flimflam.

    “It’s a shell game,” McKeague said. “That’s not science. That’s not a legitimate use of discriminant analysis.”

    Logsdon resorted to calling on the bottom line, to turn the tables on McKeague, but the professor said he was paid just $4,000 to testify for the state compared to Adler who was paid more than 10 times that amount to testify for the defense.

    “He has made millions of dollars out of this racket,” McKeague said. “It’s a complete fraud.”

    Earlier in the day, before turning the reins over to prosecutors, Renfro’s attorneys called two witnesses whose heartfelt testimony painted the defendant as a thoughtful but wayward young man.

    A middle school girlfriend of Renfro’s who still lives in Paso Robles, Calif., where Renfro went to school before moving to Idaho, recalled the defendant as someone who was picked on because of his slight build and ADHD, but whose distaste for bullies was memorable.

    Renfro would not back down from bullies who attacked him or others.

    The former girlfriend’s statements coincided with earlier testimony in which Renfro told a witness that “when you’re bullied, you don’t tell a teacher,” because nothing will get done. “You take care of it yourself.”

    Sergio Rivera, a jailhouse preacher — someone who ministered to inmates while he was a pastor in the Silver Valley — recalled Renfro as an earnest participant in his ministry at the Shoshone County Jail where Renfro was held while waiting to be sent to prison more than a decade ago.

    “He stood out so much as one of the inmates who so wanted to change, out of hundreds,” Rivera said. “He’s one of the five or six who wrote to me while he was in prison.”

    Rivera apologized for not having time to write back.

    “I’m pretty jaded … I’ve seen so many inmates, say so many things,” Rivera told the court. “His sincerity, I know, was deep.”

    The final phase of the trial to determine if Renfro should be put to death, resumes today at 9 a.m. in Courtroom 1 of the Old Kootenai County Courthouse.

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    Renfro tells jury he accepts his fate, even if it means the death penalty

    By Thomas Clouse
    The Spokesman-Review

    For the first time since his trial began on Sept. 11, convicted killer Jonathan D. Renfro took the stand Friday to speak about his role in the death of Coeur d’Alene police Sgt. Greg Moore.

    He used his first words to address the slain officer’s family.

    “I know you all hate me with good cause,” Renfro said, facing them. “I know you probably don’t believe me, but I am sorry.”

    Renfro then turned to the jury – the same jury that convicted him of first-degree murder in the May 5, 2015, ambushing and killing – and told them he accepted whatever fate they chose.

    “I’ve taken the life of a man who was much greater than I am. I can never fix that. Not only have I destroyed that family, I’ve destroyed my own family,” he said.

    “If you decide the death penalty will give back to the community and the Moore family,” he continued, “I accept that decision and will support it.”

    After deliberation, the jury may now elect that Renfro face the death penalty. If it doesn’t unanimously agree to that sentence, Renfro will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole.

    The jury had not reached a verdict by the end of the day Friday.

    During the day’s proceedings, however, Deputy Kootenai County Prosecutor David Robins gave the jury a long list of reasons why the state believes Renfro should receive the death penalty.

    “Greg was a good man who deserved many more years with his wife. He was a good man who deserved to raise his children,” Robins said. “He was a good man whose life was ended by a man who didn’t want to go back to prison.

    “In terms of the family, no words I can say can do justice to the pain they feel every day,” he continued. “The death penalty will not bring Greg back, but it will provide justice to a family that will suffer for the rest of their lives.”

    Defense attorney Keith Roark did not try to convince the jury that his client had not committed the killing. Instead, he asked that they simply let Renfro die in prison.

    “I am asking you to take from this man all of the things that make his life worth living. Put him in a place where he will never again be able to look at a sunrise over Lake Coeur d’Alene or smell the pine trees after a spring rain … to never know what it is to walk down the street holding the hand of someone you love.

    “This can all be over,” Roark said. “Nothing you do is going to put back in the heart of Dylon Moore what a father’s love means. But there is no need to kill this man.”

    Renfro’s statements followed a day of painful testimony, as Moore’s family described how the officer’s death had ripped through their lives.

    “I miss his touch, his warmth and his presence,” Moore’s widow, Lindy Moore, said through tears. “I miss being his wife. I miss the way he loved me. I miss him and I will never be the same.

    “My husband was murdered in one moment,” she continued. “Our future is gone.”

    Friday also included the continued testimony of forensic psychiatrist Dr. Michael Welner, who testified that he believed Renfro suffers from antisocial anxiety disorder and not from a traumatic brain injury as experts from the defense had claimed.

    Welner, who charged the state $210,000 for his research and $6,000 a day to testify, said Renfro had been doing well before making a decision to pursue criminal activity.

    “If he wasn’t armed, he would not have shot Sgt. Moore,” Welner said. “He chose to arm himself. This was a byproduct of his won choices, of doing what he wanted to do and being where he wanted to be.”

    First District Judge Lansing Haynes then allowed Moore’s mother, father and 14-year-old son to testify.

    The stories painted a compelling picture of a bear of a man who always found time for his family, who daily wrestled his son and became a lifelong friend to anyone who got to know him.

    Dylon told the jury he knew his father as “Batman” because “he worked in the night, and he had a belt with a lot of gadgets. He was filled with a love for me that will never be duplicated.”

    The teenager testified about the night his father was shot and the ongoing regret of not being able say goodbye to his dying father, who he was told was unrecognizable because of the shot to his face.

    “I didn’t know I would never give him another hug or see him at the softball game again,” he said as he cried. “He made me feel like I had a place at the top of his heart. I love my dad, and will miss him for the rest of my life.”

    Fred Moore, himself a lifelong police officer, spoke in broken sentences about the son who followed his footsteps into law enforcement.

    Greg Moore “told me many times that he loved his job because he liked to help others,” Fred Moore said. “I was always told that the loss of a child is the worst thing a human can suffer. I can tell you … it’s unbearable and it just never goes away.”

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    Convicted cop-killer Jonathan Renfro sentenced to death in Coeur d’Alene

    By Ryan Collingwood
    The Spokesman-Review

    Jonathan D. Renfro, who was convicted this month in the shooting death of Coeur d’Alene police Sgt. Greg Moore, was sentenced to death Saturday morning.

    After ending the day Friday without a verdict, the jury reconvened in a packed Coeur d’Alene court room Saturday and had reached their decision by around 9:00 a.m.

    The death penalty verdict comes after eight weeks of proceedings and six weeks of court hearings and testimony. Renfro was convicted of first-degree murder on Oct. 13.

    When Judge Lansing Haynes read the death penalty verdict Saturday morning, he said that the jury found that the defense’s mitigation wasn’t enough to sentence Renfro to life in prison.

    The state of Idaho has not carried out a death penalty sentence since 2012 and currently has seven people on death row. Three inmates have been executed since 1957.

    A sentencing hearing is scheduled for Monday afternoon.

    Renfro, 28, did not exhibit emotion as the verdict was read Saturday, a day after he told the jury he would “accept that decision and will support it” if given the death penalty.

    Moore’s family members and friend appeared emotional as court concluded. Moore’s wife, Lindy Moore, gave Kootenai County Deputy Prosecutor Dave Robins a long embrace before leaving the court room.

    “Justice,” a Moore supporter said as she was leaving the courthouse.

    Coeur d’Alene Police Chief Lee White said his department and Moore’s family will be giving a statement on Monday, but gave his initial thoughts on the verdict.

    “The members of our department believe justice has been served,” White said outside of the courthouse.

    The prosecution and defense said they couldn’t comment on Saturday’s verdict until after Monday’s sentencing hearing.

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    Family feels justice served after Renfro sentenced to death

    By Thomas Clouse
    The Spokesman-Review

    No longer in a black suit and dress shirt, convicted cop killer Jonathan D. Renfro wore orange sandals and red-and-white striped jail garb Monday as he waited for his death sentence for the ambush-style murder of Coeur d’Alene Police Sgt. Greg Moore.

    For added measure, Idaho First District Court Judge Lansing Haynes sentenced Renfro to life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus 19 years, for the other crimes he committed on May 5, 2015, including robbing Moore of his pistol, stealing his patrol car and trying to conceal evidence.

    Moore’s widow, Lindy Moore, and his ex-wife, Jennifer Brumley, thanked Kootenai County prosecutors Barry McHugh, David Robins and Jed Whitaker for taking Renfro permanently out of society.

    “Nothing can bring Greg back,” Moore said after pausing to cry. “But our family is at peace and we feel that justice has been served.”

    She thanked the jury, which had to sit through eight weeks of legal arguments, autopsy photos, numerous viewings of the video of the killing and dozens of experts before convicting Renfro and deciding unanimously Saturday that he should receive the death penalty.

    “Thank you, Barry McHugh, for the decision to seek the death penalty despite the difficulties and the cost,” Moore said. “If one life is saved because a criminal thinks twice about shooting at our law enforcement, then the cost was well worth it.”

    McHugh would not say whether defense attorneys Linda Payne, Jay Logsdon and Keith Roark offered to have Renfro plead guilty and accept a sentence of life in prison to avoid the death penalty.

    He also said he could not give an estimate as to the cost of investigator’s time, cost of attorney time or the overtime paid to the deputies and bailiffs who provided security in the courtroom. And those costs are separate from legal experts, one of whom billed the county about $223,000.

    Now Renfro’s immediate future is legal appeals, starting with direct appeal to the Idaho Supreme Court which will review the case before Renfro receives an execution date.

    “We talked about that with the family in advance,” McHugh said. “They are very well aware of the circumstances of our decision. I want to echo what was said a second ago: If our effort saves one life, than the money is well spent.”

    Jennifer Brumley, Moore’s ex-wife who formed a close relationship with Lindy Moore even before the killing, thanked the community for its support.

    She also thanked Kootenai County Commissioners for funding the prosecution and for the work of investigators.

    “Coeur d’Alene is the greatest place on earth. The citizens of Coeur d’Alene are shining examples of neighborly love. We could not have asked to deal with such a tragedy in a more compassionate and caring place. For this we are eternally grateful.”

    Coeur d’Alene Police Chief Lee White broke down when he talked about Moore’s son, Dylon, and the effect his father has had on the department.

    “Watching Lindy, Jen, especially Dylon,” White said, “it gave strength to our department members. We gained strength from watching their resolve.”

    White also thanked the community and prosecutors for their work in removing Renfro from the public.

    Defense attorneys did not attend the news conference. McHugh said his office could not have earned the conviction without the work of several agencies and investigators.

    “We are very appreciative of the jury, who were faced with the most difficult decision that I have had to present, or that our office has had to present, in many years,” he said. “I’m very happy that we were able to achieve the justice that the family wanted.”

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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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