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Renfro: Defender targets death penalty

Kootenai County Public Defender John Adams will argue next week in district court that prosecutors were motivated by financial reasons to seek the death penalty for the man accused of killing Coeur d'Alene Police Sgt. Greg Moore.

Jonathan Renfro, 28, allegedly admitted to shooting Moore in a Coeur d'Alene neighborhood on May 15, 2015, and the Kootenai County Prosecutor's Office filed paperwork in court last January stating its intention to ask for the death penalty. Adams, in multiple legal briefs filed in Kootenai County District Court, alleges the decision to pursue capital punishment was motivated by financial reasons, since the state has a fund set up to help reduce trial costs in counties trying such cases/Keith Cousins, Coeur d'Alene Press. More here.

Question: Do you want to see the death penalty on the table in the slaying of Sgt. Greg Moore?



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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