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Samuel Murder Case Delay Sought

The lawyer for a Coeur d’Alene juvenile accused of murdering two family members asked a judge Wednesday for a delay in the trial, which is scheduled to start March 2. Kootenai County Public Defender John Adams told 1st District Judge Benjamin Simpson that his team still is trying to obtain copies of records from California, where Eldon Samuel III lived before moving with his father and brother to North Idaho in 2013. Samuel, 15, is charged with two counts of murder in the March 2014 deaths of his father, Eldon Samuel Jr., and his brother, Jonathon Samuel, 13. Both were shot repeatedly inside an emergency housing unit where they were living. Jonathon also was stabbed. Adams said he is trying to gather “thousands of pieces of paper” including school, health and child protective service records related to the family/Scott Maben, SR. More here.



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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