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Pleas awaited in number of cases

A number of matters continued to move through the court system during Estevan provincial court proceedings on Nov. 18.


A number of matters continued to move through the court system during Estevan provincial court proceedings on Nov. 18.

Legal counsel for Rodney Beatty is awaiting further disclosure from the Crown before he enters a plea to charges of fraud, theft and using forged documents.

His lawyer, Joelle Graham said the matter may be ready for a plea or resolution on Dec. 2.

In other court proceedings, sentencing for Paul Martens was scheduled for Dec. 13 in Carnduff. Martens is awaiting sentence on a charge of voyeurism. Sentencing was going to occur in Estevan, but Judge Karl Bazin suggested the matter should be handled in the jurisdiction where the offences occurred.

A pair of separate child porn matters was also before the provincial courts in Estevan. Both Vance Barker and Craig Wellendorf are facing charges of possessing child porn and pleas are expected to be made when the matters are next before the court on Jan. 13, 2014.

A young offender also appeared in custody on Monday, and the Crown prosecutor would not permit the teenager's release, following an alleged breach of his conditions. The youth was sentenced earlier this year to a six-month sentence served in the community after pleading guilty to multiple counts of impaired driving causing bodily harm.

The youth was remanded until another court appearance on Nov. 21.