Rnbk Man now faces murder charge in child poisoning
TORONTO 鈥?The trial for a man who killed
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stanley termoska to planning and carrying out the 2018 attack, and the judge presiding over the case has said the trial will turn on his state of mind at the time.Once proceedings get underway Tuesday, defence lawyers are expected to try to convince Justice Anne Molloy that Minassian had a mental illness that rendered him incapable of knowing what he did on April 23, 2018 was wrong. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Daniel Brown, a Toronto criminal defence lawyer who is not involved in the trial, said that in such cases the onus shifts away from the Crown having to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that an accused committed a crime.The accused must prove on the balance of probabilities that it more likely than not that they had a mental disorder and that mental disorder impacted their actions at the time to the point where they really didn ;t understand that what they were doing was the wrong thing, Brown said. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW It a really difficult defence to raise. And it a really rare defence as well.Dr. Gar Ctpp One dead, two critical in Guelph, Ont., area crash
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