AP 05/15 0845 Supremacist Sentenced COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) -- A white supremacist turne

AP 05/15 0845 Supremacist Sentenced


   COEUR  D'ALENE,  Idaho  (AP)  --  A  white  supremacist turned
government informant has been sentenced to  life  in  prison  for
murder  plus a 10-year term for his part in bombings last year in
Coeur d'Alene.

   The sentencing Thursday in state court  was  part  of  a  plea
bargain guaranteeing Robert Pires government protection.  It will
run  concurrently  with a 20-year federal sentence Pires recently
received for bombings, weapons and counterfeiting charges.

   Kootenai County Prosecutor Glen  Walker  said  Pires,  22,  of
Silver  Spring,  Md.,  will  have  to  serve at least 10 years in
prison before he's eligible for parole.

   First  District  Judge  Dar  Cogswell  had  halted  sentencing
Tuesday  on  the  first-degree  murder  count,  saying  the facts
surrounding the case did not support the charge.  But  prosecutor
Phil  Robinson  said he reworked a factual-basis statement on the
charge, allowing Cogswell to go through with the  sentencing  for
the August murder of Kenneth Shray.

   Pires'  attorney,  Kerwin  Bennett,  said  Thursday that Pires
believed members of the Church of Jesus Christ  Christian  (Aryan
Nations) planned to beat and rob Shray, but not kill him.  Shray,
of  Baltimore,  arrived  at  the Aryan Nations' Idaho compound in
August, and Pires  believed  that  other  members  of  the  group
thought Shray was a police informant, according to Bennett.

   Shray's  bullet-ridden  body was found Aug. 18 near Clark Fork
in Bonner County.

   During a trial for two white  supremacists  on  counterfeiting
charges,  Assistant  U.S.  Attorney Earl Hicks in Spokane, Wash.,
told a judge that another white supremacist, David Dorr, may have
been the triggerman in Shray's death.

   Dorr, and Edward  and  Olive  Hawley  all  were  charged  with
counterfeiting.   Prosecutors  said  they  ran  a  counterfeiting
operation to finance a white supremacist revolution.

   The bombings in Coeur d'Alene were to act as a diversion for a
bank robbery, prosecutors said.  The robbery never occurred.

   Olive  Hawley  was  sentenced  to  four  years'  probation  on
counterfeiting charges.    Her  husband, Edward, was sentenced to
four years in prison, and Dorr was sentenced to six.

	Dorr and Edward Hawley still face bombing charges.
   
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