Proceedings were back under way at the Battleford court house this week as the second-degree murder case against Gerald Stanley gets set for trial next year.
Pre-trial motions on evidence in the Stanley case were being put forward in court beginning on Monday, in advance of the trial scheduled to begin Jan. 29, 2018 in Battleford Queen’s Bench Court. The trial is set to run until Feb. 15.
Stanley faces a second-degree murder charge in connection to the August 2016 shooting death of Colten Boushie on Stanley’s property in the RM of Glenside. He also faces firearms-related offences.
The case has drawn national media attention over the implications for race relations in the province of Saskatchewan.
It has also been confirmed that Martel Popescul, Chief Justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Saskatchewan, will preside over the trial.
