HALIFAX – The lawyer for a mentally ill Nova Scotia man charged with murdering two men in 2007 has dropped an application to have him moved from one section of a Dartmouth hospital to another.
In April, lawyer Joel Pink requested the change so that his client, Glen Douglas Race, 30, could have more in-person visits with his family at the East Coast Forensic Hospital.
A hearing on the application was set for today in Dartmouth provincial court, but Pink told the Halifax Chronicle Herald that he abandoned the attempt May 12 because the judge did not have the authority to approve the change.
Instead, Pink says he and the Race family will attempt to work with the psychiatric hospital to improve their arrangements.
In January 2010, Race was convicted and given a life sentence in Upstate New York for a 2007 murder.
The Dartmouth man was brought to Nova Scotia from the United States last October to face two charges of first-degree murder for the spring 2007 deaths of Michael Knott, 44, and Trevor Brewster, 45.
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