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With an agenda chock full of contentious issues, Tuesday night’s council meeting kicked off with a warning from LaFollette Mayor Mike Stanfield.

“We’ve got a lot on the agenda and I’ll have no outbursts from the council or the audience or you’ll be escorted out by the police,” Stanfield said.  There were four uniformed officers and the chief of police standing by just in case Stanfield needed to make good on that promise.

When Sammy Miracle was set free on Friday, his family cried tears of joy.

But less than five feet across the room from them, the Pierce family’s tears were for a much different reason.

“He did it and he is free,” Linda Pierce, Jonathan Pierce's widow said on Tuesday afternoon.

She said the initial shock of the verdict quickly wore off giving way to tears. “I cried all day Friday,” Linda Pierce said. “But on Saturday morning a peace came over me.”