Judge enters not guilty plea for escaped prisoner charged with killing a man while on the run

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Judge enters not guilty plea for escaped prisoner charged with ******** a man while on the run

LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho judge has entered a not guilty plea on behalf of an escaped prisoner charged with ******** a man while he was

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for 36 hours.

Prosecutors have said they intend to

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if Skylar Meade, 32, is convicted of the ******* charge in connection with the ********* ****** of James Mauney. Meade was arraigned on the charge in Nez Perce County on Thursday. When 2nd District Judge Michelle Evans asked if he was ready to enter a plea, Meade’s defense attorney Anne Taylor said, “your honor, he intends to stand silent.”

Declining to enter a plea is a right that is protected by the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and Idaho court rules state that when defendants exercise that right, a judge will enter a not guilty plea on their behalf.

Meade has already been

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in prison in a separate court case after

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to the March escape from a Boise hospital, where prison officials had taken him for treatment of self-inflicted injuries March 20.

Prosecutors say that as correctional officers prepared to take Meade back to the prison around 2 a.m. that day, an accomplice outside the hospital began *********.

Two of the officers were shot by the accomplice, and a third was shot when a police officer mistook him for the shooter and opened *****, according to police. All three survived.

Meade and the other man

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, investigators said, first driving several hours to north-central Idaho.

Mauney, an 83-year-old Juliaetta resident, didn’t return home from walking his dogs on a local trail later that morning, and his body was found miles away.

Police say that soon after, the two men headed back to southern Idaho. They were

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