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.
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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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