In Calgary courts: Date for final submission in youth murder trial in fatal shooting of teen set for May​on March 14, 2025 at 8:45 pm

Instead, Hepner, who said he was officially retained by Redden’s family on Thursday, asked that the case return to court on March 28 to schedule a new trial date, likely early next year.

The lawyer said he was waiving any argument of unreasonable delay as a result of the postponement, an undertaking agreed to by his client.

Under the Charter, an accused person has the right to be tried within a reasonable amount of time, which the Supreme Court has said should be within 30 months plus any defence delay.

Redden was in court last Friday, where then-lawyer Andrea Urquhart applied to get off the record because of a breakdown in the solicitor/client relationship, putting the June jury trial in jeopardy.

At the time, Redden indicated Hepner was likely to come on as counsel and the lawyer confirmed Friday he isn’t available for the full three weeks beginning June 2.

Hepner and Crown prosecutor Carla MacPhail will utilize one of those weeks for pre-trial applications, he told Justice Jane Sidnell.

She asked that the case return to court next Friday so she and Crown prosecutor Tiffany Dwyer can find a suitable date in Justice Nancy Dilts calendar at least two months down the road.

Dilts convicted Nakasenh-Bandasak, rejecting arguments from Stephensen that the fatal stabbing was an act of self-defence.

The judge said it was unreasonable for the killer to believe Charanek was armed with a knife given that he was wearing just a T-shirt, a pair of shorts and socks when the two men had an altercation on the street.

The only issue for Dilts to decide is when the killer will be eligible to seek parole from his automatic life sentence.

The lawyer for Calgary murder suspect Yosief Hagos told court Friday he has reached a deal with the Crown to resolve the case without a trial.

Defence counsel Shamsher Kothari asked Justice Jane Sidnell to cancel Hagos’s May jury trial dates and have him appear in Calgary Court of King’s Bench on April 22, when he and Crown prosecutor Melissa Bond will present a statement of agreed facts and a joint sentencing submission.

In the Jan. 13, 2023, interview Bangloy indicated witnesses had indicated Crane was killed at 240 34th Ave. N.E.

“The residence where it happened at … was your place,” the detective said.

“Now, we end up finding Keanan’s body later and it was determined that he was murdered. Okay? So, that’s kinda problematic for you, right?”

“Yeah,” Tait replied.

Tait is charged with manslaughter and being an accessory after the fact to Crane’s murder.

It’s the Crown’s theory the victim had gone to the accused’s home in the early morning hours of April 7, 2022, and was confronted about an outstanding drug debt. He was then assaulted by a group of individuals, including Tait, bound with duct tape and injected with fentanyl.

Prosecutors Aleksandra Simic and Stephanie Morton believe his body was then cut into pieces before his remains were taken to a remote area west of Calgary and scattered, most of which were never found, save for his left foot and lower leg bone, some scattered bone fragments and his skull, discovered May 15, 2022.

As a result, Justice Jim Ogle ordered Jared Burke, Greg Schuster, Shyana Popplestone and Gurpreet Gill to stand trial in Calgary Court of King’s Bench.

Burke, 25, Schuster, 31, and Popplestone, 27, were each initially charged with manslaughter when the four were arrested in January 2024 but prosecutors Britta Kristensen and Katherine Love later upgraded the allegations against them to first-degree murder.

Gill, 31, has faced a murder charge since his initial arrest.

All four remain detained.

Chehade and Fettig weren’t charged until last November.

While Chehade has been released on bail Fettig remains detained. Froese told Justice Greg Stirling she will discuss the possibility of bail for her client with the Crown and may bring it back to Court of Justice before the preliminary inquiry to schedule a release hearing.

The 180-day jail term handed a former Calgary Remand Centre guard for kicking three prisoners was excessive, Alberta’s top court ruled Thursday.

“The appellant kicked each victim once, causing no material injury,” they said.

“He did so without provocation, but under circumstances of considerable stress — following the victims’ violent assault of a fellow prisoner, while in a confined space and while the prisoners had not yet been handcuffed. That they posed no threat to the appellant is perhaps clearer in hindsight than it would have been at the time.”

The province’s top court has upheld the conviction of a sex trade worker who took part in the luring, torture and sexual assault of a bad client.

A three-member Alberta Court of Appeal panel on Wednesday ruled Justice Charlene Anderson made no errors in finding Carol Nordvall took part in the vicious assault of the victim, who can’t be named.

Defence counsel James McLeod had argued Anderson’s ruling should be overturned based on inconsistencies in the victim’s version of what occurred.

Parsons was sentenced to 11½ years and Schollen six. The other assailants have never been charged.

The temporary injunction preventing former Calgary Police Service human resources boss Angela Whitney from disclosing confidential department information had been made permanent.

Court records show that as part of a settlement agreement between Whitney and the CPS, she has agreed to abide by the ongoing confidentiality order, but is not admitting any liability.

The permanent injunction order, signed by Calgary Court of King’s Bench Justice Ola Malik, notes Whitney and the police service have reached an out-of-court settlement in their legal dispute in which neither side will have to pay costs to the other party.

The CPS and the Office of the Chief sued Whitney last March, alleging she breached confidentiality provisions in her resignation agreement as director of human resources for the force.

In his ruling, Fradsham detailed the facts of the case.

“The accused was recovering from a previous injury and required the assistance of a cane when walking,” the Calgary Court of Justice judge said.

“He was in the view that in the past, certain of his lawn ornaments had been stolen, and he concluded, wrongly, that the complainants were either stealing, or damaging the ornaments with which he had replaced the previous stolen ones.”

Fildebrant went outside to deal with the teens, who were simply waiting for a friend to join them, using his cane to assist him.

“He was upset at the time, and at some point raised his cane in the air. I find that the accused said to the complainants: ‘I protect my property and my belongings with a gun,’” Fradsham said.

The judge said those words, expressed in frustration, “were at most, a statement that he would take protective measures in defence of his property.”

As a result he found they did not constitute a threat.

KMartin@postmedia.com

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