{"id":9239,"date":"2011-10-25T20:20:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T03:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=9239"},"modified":"2011-10-26T04:46:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T11:46:04","slug":"breaking-news-arrest-warrants-re-issued-for-ron-reynolds-and-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=9239","title":{"rendered":"Breaking news: Arrest warrants re-issued for Ron Reynolds and son"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated at 9:03 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n

By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker
\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n

CHEHALIS – Lewis County Coroner Warren McLeod has reissued the arrest warrants for Ron and Jonathan Reynolds after investigating the possibility of juror misconduct.<\/p>\n

McLeod, in a news release this evening, said the allegation of misconduct was unfounded.<\/p>\n

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Ron Reynolds<\/p><\/div>\n

The warrants were issued last Wednesday evening,\u00a0 following the conclusion by an inquest jury the pair were responsible<\/a> for the homicide of the former state trooper Ronda Reynolds in 1998.<\/p>\n

McLeod quashed<\/a> them on Thursday to investigate what he called a legal issue<\/a> that was brought to his attention.<\/p>\n

McLeod tonight said he investigated the matter: A witness had reported seeing a woman in the lobby of the Lewis County Law and Justice Center putting a book about the Ronda Reynolds case in her purse between the hours of 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on either last Tuesday or Wednesday, McLeod wrote in a news release.<\/p>\n

The inquest jury had been instructed not to read up on the case.<\/p>\n

McLeod stated the “witness” was unable to pick out a juror as being the person they had seen – from a photo montage. Also, the “witness” could not say if the woman had been wearing a jurors badge.<\/p>\n

Also, McLeod wrote, he concluded the alleged misconduct could not have occurred on either of those days during those times because the jurors were in the jury room.<\/p>\n

The warrants were signed this evening and will be delivered to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office in the morning so they can be served, according to McLeod.<\/p>\n

The coroner said he had planned to ask each juror – and the two alternates – about the matter under oath on Friday morning in open court.<\/p>\n

He will still reconvene the inquest at 9 a.m. on Friday, and read his final orders on the coroner’s inquest into the record. The jurors won’t have to come back in, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Updated at 9:03 p.m. By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter CHEHALIS – Lewis County Coroner Warren McLeod has reissued the arrest warrants for Ron and Jonathan Reynolds after investigating the possibility of juror misconduct. McLeod, in a news release this evening, said the allegation of misconduct was unfounded. The warrants were issued […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9239"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9242,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239\/revisions\/9242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}