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MONTREAL – Luka Rocco Magnotta is back in court Monday, in a high-security room, for his preliminary hearing.
The man accused in the gruesome body-parts case is in that chamber in the Montreal courthouse for his first legal hearing in months.
Clad from head to toe in white, he has been sitting quietly, with his arms folded in his lap.
Magnotta’s lawyers are trying to have the public and media barred from attending the rest of the hearing, which is to determine if there is enough evidence for a trial.
The request for the closed courtroom stems from an unspecified reason related to Magnotta’s personal and medical history.
His legal team is now arguing that the only people who should be allowed to remain for the hearing are the prosecutors, the judge and a court clerk.
Magnotta is charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of Chinese-born student Jun Lin last May. He has pleaded not guilty to the allegations.
Authorities named Magnotta as a suspect after the severed remains of Lin, a Montreal engineering student, were mailed to the Ottawa offices of the federal Conservatives and the federal Liberals along with two Vancouver schools.
More remains were found at a Montreal park.
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