P.S. Edgar Steele, Wife Appear In Court

In this file photo by Jesse Tinsley/SR, Edgar Steele, the attorney who defended Richard Butler against the lawsuit brought by Morris Dees, watches the proceedings, camera in hand at the Aryan Nations parade Saturday, Oct. 28, 2000 in Coeur d’Alene. In a strange twist of events, Steele is now faces charges in a murder-for-hire plot against his wife and his mother. And a vehicle owned by him was the source of a bomb scare in Coeur d’Alene today.

• Meghann Cuniff reports that both Edgar Steele and his wife appeared in court today. Steele said he wants to be represented by former Kootenai County prosecutor Glen Walker. Meghann will file her story on the court proceedings later this evening. Latest on Steele’s vehicle being involved in bomb scare here.