An young man from Oshawa who worked at various times as an automobile worker or a cabbie, Hurren was a close friend of Lorne Edgar Campbell with he had boarded with as a teenager.
[16] On 6 December 1978, Hurren was arrested at Satan's Choice Toronto clubhouse along with Gary Comeau and Jeff McLeod on charges of conspiracy to commit murder.
[20] On 2 February 1979, Hurren was convicted of unlawful assembly in connection with the incident at the Alderville reserve and was sentenced to two years of probation.
[24] Newman attempted to have a mistrial declared on 11 September 1979 when of the Crown's witnesses, Constable Donald Denis, used the phrase outlaw motorcycle gang, to describe Satan's Choice.
[27] One of the Crown's witnesses, Susan Foote, named Hurren as one of the Satan's Choice bikers present when Matiyek was killed, and pointed out him in the courtroom.
[32] In his final submission to the jury, Newman adopted the highly unusual strategy of linking the first letter of the surnames of the jurors to a theme.
[34] Newman stated juror number three, Laura Lippold that L stood for Logic, which she should apply when assessing the rival views of the prosecution and defense.
[34] Likewise, Newman advised juror number four, Edgar Horace Gudgeon, that G stood for Gunman, which the Crown had been unable to establish during the trial.
[35] Newman stated that Hurren had gone to the Queen's Hotel for a possible bar fight "but some fool pulled out a gun and killed Matiyek on a ridiculous impulse".
[37] Justice Counter Osborne gave Newman a pointed rebuke for his final submission on 12 November 1979 as he told him: "...the mechanics of their presentation was wrong and that creates a problem.
Corporal Terry Hall asked accused Larry Hurren what in fact had really happened at The Queen's Hotel on October 18, 1978.
[41] The Satan's Choice prisoners at Millhaven formed a tight clique and Hurren was clearly upset when Blaker was transferred to Joyceville institution in August 1982.
In the 1990s, Hurren was involved with the Association In Defense of the Wrongly Convicted (AIDWYC) and campaigned for freedom for the remaining Port Hope 8 prisoners still behind bars.
[45] Found on his motorcycle was the phrase written on the gas tank "Justice in Ontario", a reference to the protest song about the Port Hope 8 case.