Renfro still faces death penalty

A Kootenai County judge on Wednesday denied several defense motions, including another attempt to take the death penalty off the table, in the case against a North Idaho man accused of killing a Coeur d’Alene police officer in May 2015.

First District Judge Lansing Haynes denied the motion by Kootenai County Public Defender John Adams to preclude the death penalty for Jonathan Renfro, who is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Sgt. Greg Moore. Adams based the motion on an argument of insufficient funding for a defense of a capital crime.

Haynes also denied Adams’ motion to suppress police video footage of the shooting and to dismiss several counts of the indictment, including first-degree murder, robbery and concealing evidence, based on lack of evidence presented at Renfro’s preliminary hearing/ SR . More here.