A judge has imposed a six-month peace bond on a Dalhousie University medical student accused of threatening to kill people at the Halifax school.
Stephen Gregory Tynes made a brief appearance in Halifax provincial court on Tuesday.
Tynes was scheduled for a trial earlier in June on charges of uttering threats to cause bodily harm and engaging in threatening conduct,but that turned into a peace bond hearing after the Crown withdrew three of the charges.
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Crown prosecutor Eric Taylor said that in reviewing the case and witness accounts, it became clear the evidence to support criminal charges wasn’t as strong as initially thought.
Tynes’s psychiatrist testified as part of the peace bond hearing that she went to police with her concerns because she felt the daughter of a university official was in imminent danger of being harmed.
Tynes is also charged with unauthorized possession of a prohibited device in relation to an overcapacity cartridge magazine.
A trial on that count is scheduled for August 19th.
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