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A recent interim public ban has ensured that it will not be disclosed until trial whether or not medical experts found that the accused killer for the stabbing deaths of five young people at a University of Calgary year-end party last spring, Matthew de Grood, could be deemed not criminally responsible because of a mental disorder.
Provincial court Judge, Joanne Durant, issued the interim publication ban to conceal the reports including the evaluation by two psychiatrists and a psychologist that were delivered to the court, Crown prosecutor Neil Wiberg and defence lawyer Allan Fay on early Friday morning. According to Wiberg, the ban was endorsed because the case will ultimately be heard by a jury and the expert opinions are, at this stage, only witness evidence. In addition to that, Wiberg stated that “in terms of fairness … if evidence is released in advance, it is perhaps evidence that may or may not be before the courts (at trial) and that prejudices the accused’s right to a fair trial,” adding that “these are statements that provide opinions. It is a recommendation, it is an opinion.”
22-yaer-old De Grood was seen by a closed-circuit television from Calgary Remand Centre, rocking his chair back and forth to his left and right during four separate hearings. The only instance that Mr. De Grood spoke during each hearing was when the judge asked him if he could see and hear her and the lawyers and he always replied “yes, I can.”
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