WINNIPEG – The jury has been excused at the trial of a man accused of first-degree murder in the freezing death of a Winnipeg teenager in 1984.
The plan had been for defence and Crown lawyers to present their final arguments to the Court of Queen’s Bench jury.
That was to be followed Wednesday by associate Chief Justice Glenn Joyal charging jurors in advance of their deliberations.
But Joyal told jurors some issues had arisen with regard to his planned instructions and it was fairer to settle those now.
Joyal said he still hoped to charge the jury Wednesday after the defence and Crown finish their presentations.
Mark Edward Grant is accused of leaving Candace Derksen bound hand and foot in a brickyard shed where she froze to death.
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