Second delay in cross burning case
Posted Mar 12, 2010 02:21:19 PM.
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Two brothers charged with hate crimes after a cross was burned in the yard of an interracial couple in Nova Scotia will enter pleas on April 19th.
Twenty-year-old Nathan Rehberg, 20, and 19-year-old Justin Rehberg of Avondale, appeared briefly in court today in Windsor.
The case was put over because the prosecutor was not available.
Police laid the charges after racial slurs were allegedly hurled at Michelle Lyon and Shayne Howe, who have five children, in an incident outside their home in Poplar
Grove last month.
“Disappointed, you want this swiftly done and dealt with, not keep putting over and putting over,” says Lyon about the second court delay in a week. “But there’s nothing you can really do.”
The Rehberg brothers face charges of public incitement of hatred, mischief, uttering threats and criminal harassment.
