Post by Doc on Jan 15, 2011 7:34:55 GMT -5
ANDERSON, Ind. — One of two inmates charged in an April 2007 killing at the Pendleton Correctional Facility was transferred to Madison County for an initial court hearing on Friday.
Paul M. Rayle, 27, who is serving a 10-year prison term in Fort Wayne, was formally charged last week in the beating and strangulation death of Kent D. McDonald, a 44-year-old child molester who was found in a pool of his own blood in his prison cell on April 6, 2007.
An automatic plea of not guilty was entered and Madison County Magistrate Stephen Clase ordered Rayle held without bond in the Madison County Jail.
Clase appointed Patrick Ragains as Rayle’s public defender, and Rayle’s case has been assigned to Madison County Superior Court 3 Judge Thomas Newman Jr.
Newman’s court also is the venue for murder co-defendant Clay M. Howard, 25. An affidavit for probable cause says that Howard and Rayle, former Pendleton inmates, were members of the Aryan Brotherhood, a white supremacist gang that authorities say had taken a vow to kill child molesters.
Howard has not yet had his initial hearing. He is serving a 32-year sentence on a charge of attempted murder and a 15-year sentence for burglary in the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility, according to the Indiana Department of Correction.
Paul M. Rayle, 27, who is serving a 10-year prison term in Fort Wayne, was formally charged last week in the beating and strangulation death of Kent D. McDonald, a 44-year-old child molester who was found in a pool of his own blood in his prison cell on April 6, 2007.
An automatic plea of not guilty was entered and Madison County Magistrate Stephen Clase ordered Rayle held without bond in the Madison County Jail.
Clase appointed Patrick Ragains as Rayle’s public defender, and Rayle’s case has been assigned to Madison County Superior Court 3 Judge Thomas Newman Jr.
Newman’s court also is the venue for murder co-defendant Clay M. Howard, 25. An affidavit for probable cause says that Howard and Rayle, former Pendleton inmates, were members of the Aryan Brotherhood, a white supremacist gang that authorities say had taken a vow to kill child molesters.
Howard has not yet had his initial hearing. He is serving a 32-year sentence on a charge of attempted murder and a 15-year sentence for burglary in the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility, according to the Indiana Department of Correction.