By Graham Slaughter, CTV News, October 13, 2016
Alberta’s justice minister says the problem “didn’t occur overnight.”
An Edmonton man accused of first-degree murder in a prison stabbing had his case thrown out earlier this week because a judge ruled that it took Alberta’s court system too long to start the trial.
Lance Matthew Regan, 29, was set to stand trial next week for the stabbing death of fellow inmate Mason Tex Montgrand, who died in 2011. But Justice Stephen Hillier found that Regan’s right to a trial within a reasonable timeframe had “been violated,” and so the charge was stayed.
