HALIFAX – The case of two people accused in the death of Halifax university student Loretta Saunders will go to trial next April.
Trial dates were set Thursday for Blake Leggette, 26, and Victoria Henneberry, 28, in Nova Scotia Supreme Court.
The trial is expected to begin on April 20, 2015 and run for about four weeks.
The accused each face a charge of first-degree murder in the death of 26-year-old Saunders, who went missing from her Halifax apartment in February.
Her body was found in a wooded area off the Trans-Canada Highway in New Brunswick two weeks later.
Pat Atherton, the lawyer representing Henneberry, has asked the court to hear a motion for separate trials.
Judge John Murphy decided Atherton’s request will be dealt with in court before the trial starts for the two accused, but no date was set for that hearing.
If Atherton’s motion is successful, the pair will not be tried together but at least one trial will go ahead on April 20.
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