Moncton shooting case won’t be rushed through court: analyst
Posted Jun 8, 2014 5:02 pm.
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The trial for Justin Bourque will be one of the most high-profile cases in Canada, but a legal analyst says don’t expect it to fly through the court process.
Both the prosecution and the defense have asked for a month to prepare for the case beginning in July.
Bourque is charged with three counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder in the horrific Moncton shootings.
Legal analyst Michael Shapray said it won’t move any faster through the court even though it’s a high-profile case.
“There’s obviously going to be a tremendous amount of evidence that they’re going to have to gather from various different sources,” he said. “There will be a push in the public to have that case moved faster but I think at the end of the day, the process will take the same amount of time as any other case, if not even longer because of the profile.”
Shapray added a video on YouTube of a family watching the shootings from inside their home doesn’t prove who the shooter was.
“They’re going to have to prove identification, that video itself, the defense council wouldn’t have to say much about because it doesn’t actually show the killer on the videotape at all,” he said.
In the meantime, RCMP are asking anyone for photos or videos of the shooting or manhunt to send them in.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced he will be in Moncton on Tuesday.
Spouses of the RCMP are selling red shirts that read, “Red Serge Proud.”
You can find them here.
All the money raised will go to the wives of the men who were shot and killed.
