A Saskatchewan farmer accused of killing a 22-year-old indigenous man will have his firearms charges dealt with in March.
No date has officially been set for his second-degree murder trial, but Gerald Stanley’s defence counsel, Scott Spencer, told a North Battleford court on Monday he wants the firearms charges dealt with “soon after” that trial.
The matter involving two counts of unsafe storage of a firearm was adjourned until March 19.
Stanley has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Colten Boushie.
Boushie was shot and killed Aug. 9 while riding in an SUV that went into a farmyard near Biggar, Sask.
Stanley was committed in April to stand trial on the second-degree murder charge.
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CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article indicated that Stanley’s defence lawyer Scott Spencer told CTV News that he expects a possible early March trial date. In fact, the article was based on submissions to the Provincial Court wherein Spencer indicated that no trial date had been set on the more serious charge and that the expectation, of both Crown and Defence, is that the trial will be complete before March. CTV regrets the error.
