A Gatinois accused of murder will not stop Jordan

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Thursday, 15 February 2018 11:47

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OTTAWA – Khalid Gakmakge, a man of Gatineau accused of murdering his wife, must undergo his second trial. The supreme Court of Canada refused Thursday morning to hear the call of the man who invoked the judgment in Jordan.

Gakmakge was convicted in march 2011 of having murdered his wife, Lucia Medeiros, three years earlier. He had been sentenced to life in prison.

After appealing the decision, the man had managed to force the holding of a new trial. The Court of appeal had ruled in February of 2015 that the trial judge had erred in accepting that a witness changes his version of the facts.

The second trial was set for October 2017, but the accused had requested a stay of proceedings invoking the judgment in Jordan. According to this judgment of the supreme Court, the maximum period between the indictment and the end of a trial must be 30 months for the cases that are heard in superior Court.

Khalid Gakmakge argued that 108 months would have passed since his first indictment and the end of his second trial.

Last July, the superior Court refused to order a stay of proceedings, stating that it must rather be based on a period of 34 months, that some of these delays were attributable to the defendant himself and that of others within the footprint exceptional system in the Gatineau area.