Doctor wants Race moved
Posted Apr 21, 2011 11:00:49 AM.
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A request to move a double-murder suspect within the confines of the East Coast Forensic Hospital raised jurisdictional questions in Dartmouth provincial court Thursday morning.
Glen Race, 29, is charged with first degree murder in the deaths of Michael Paul Knott, 44, of Timberlea and Trevor Charles Brewster, 45, of Cole Harbour in 2007.
He is currently remanded in custody at the Dartmouth facility, being treated for paranoid schizophrenia.
“Basically [the doctor] wants to remove him from the correctional side, to my understanding, to the rehabilitation side. He could be given more privileges by the hospital,” said defence lawyer Joel Pink, referring to a letter written by Dr. Scott Theriault.
Theriault is a psychiatrist and the clinical director at the forensic hospital.
“Basically it will allow him to have more access to other people, than he presently has. (Theriault’s) told me that would be better for his mental processes,” Pink told reporters following a brief court appearance.
Crown attorney Paul Carver argued any change to Race’s status from “remanded in custody” is a bail issue which has to be decided in the Supreme Court.
The issue of whether the provincial court has jurisdiction to entertain the doctor’s suggestion will be argued May 24 at about 11 a.m.
A date for the preliminary inquiry into the double-murder trial was set for March 13, 2012 at 9:30 a.m.
Race was convicted of murdering Darcy Manor in upstate New York in May 2007.
He was sentenced to life in prison in the U.S. in 2009 before he was extradited to Canada.
