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New tentative trial date set for David Woods

Accused murderer David Woods will apply for court appointed lawyer, trial scheduled to started in April 2014. Vytai Brannan / Global News

SASKATOON – A new tentative trial date has been set for a Saskatoon man accused of murdering his wife.

David Woods was to face a judge in late September on a charge of first-degree murder in the death of Dorothy Woods but he fired his lawyer, delaying the trial.

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Dorothy Woods’ body was found in a culvert near Blackstrap two months after she was reported missing in late 2011.

Woods appeared in court Monday and will officially make an application for a court appointed lawyer.

He’s due back in court in two weeks.

A four-week trial has been penciled in for next year starting on April 28.

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