Update: Judge won’t lower Odom bond

Kyle Odom’s attorney asked a judge Thursday to lower the bond for the man charged with shooting Pastor Tim Remington six times outside a Coeur d’Alene church. The bond, set at $500,000, is excessive for the charge of aggravated battery, argued Kootenai County Deputy Public Defender Lisa Chesebro. It also is set just high enough to require the county jail staff to keep Odom in maximum security at the county jail, which isn’t necessary, Chesebro told 1st District Judge James Stow. Lowering the bond even by $1 would ensure Odom remains in jail but afford flexibility in where the jail staff keep him, she said. Deputy Public Defender Jed Whitaker asked Stow to leave the bond as is. Odom presents a substantial risk to public safety, Whitaker said, and he outlined how Odom allegedly fled the scene of the shooting, drove across state lines, boarded a commercial flight for Washington, D.C., and stayed in a room three blocks from the White House before he was arrested by the U.S. Secret Service. “He’s lying,” Odom could be heard telling his lawyer.Stow agreed to leave the bond at $500,000 and said it would not be appropriate for the court to alter that amount to affect the detention arrangement/ Scott Maben , SR.