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Odom returned to Kootenai County

Keith Cousins Hagadone News Network | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 8 years, 11 months AGO
by Keith Cousins Hagadone News Network
| May 7, 2016 1:00 AM

COEUR d'ALENE — Kyle Odom arrived at the Kootenai County jail Friday afternoon, according to the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office.

Odom, 30, allegedly shot pastor Tim Remington multiple times in the parking lot of The Altar Church in Coeur d'Alene in March and was eventually apprehended by Secret Service agents in front of the White House in Washing-ton, D.C. He was escorted from the nation's capital back to Idaho by the U.S. Marshals Service and, according to Kootenai County Sheriff's Office Lt. Stu Miller, arrived at the county jail around 2 p.m. Friday.

Earlier in the day, Kootenai County District Court Judge Lansing Haynes approved a motion by Sheriff Ben Wolfinger to dismiss a civil lawsuit filed by Public Defender John Adams. In the suit, Adams petitioned the court for a write of habeas corpus — a court order to a person or agency requiring them to deliver a prisoner to the court that issued the order.

In the lawsuit, Adams wrote he had not spoken to Odom since April, and that he did not know where his client was. According to Adams, federal statute states transportation of a prisoner from one area of the nation to another is considered "unreasonable" when it lasts longer than 10 days.

Adams filed an identical lawsuit in federal court, which was dropped at his request on May 3.

Wolfinger's motion to dismiss the lawsuit focused on, according to court documents, his assertion that Odom was "not being detained or restrained in the (Kootenai County) jail or by deputies or other personnel from my office."

Kootenai County Prosecutor Barry McHugh told The Press Friday he expects Odom will have his first appearance in Kootenai County District Court on Monday.

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