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Sundre resident Jason Kelley Burns was ordered to face trial Monday for manslaughter in reference to a hit-and-run incident final 12 months.
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Calgary Provincial Court docket Decide Jim Ogle despatched the case to the Court docket of King’s Bench after Crown prosecutor Pierre Grabinski known as just one witness.
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Protection counsel Andrea Urquhart agreed to her consumer’s enterprise to face trial.
Urquhart additionally requested for a publication ban on the proof Grabinski gave earlier than Ogle.
Suspect fled the scene after hitting the sufferer along with his van
Burns (30) was initially charged with driving-related offenses following an incident on March 1, 2022, in Sundre.
However in October, the Crown added a cost of manslaughter to the costs of harmful driving inflicting loss of life, leaving the scene of a deadly accident and working whereas prohibited.
Like manslaughter, harmful driving and hit-and-run offenses carry most sentences of life imprisonment the place deaths have occurred, though such sentences are extraordinarily uncommon.
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Burns was arrested at a Sundre residence shortly after RCMP responded to a report of a fatality within the city about 115 km north of Calgary.
Officers responded to a house on 43 Vary Highway, simply outdoors of city, the place they found the physique of Brendan Jeffrey McDonald.
“Emergency medical providers administered life-saving measures, however the sufferer … was pronounced useless on the scene,” police mentioned in a information launch.
“The preliminary investigation signifies that an interplay befell between two grownup males, which resulted within the suspect hitting the sufferer with a pick-up truck whereas it was in reverse,” police mentioned.
“The van then fled the scene.”
Burns was initially taken into custody, however was later launched on bail.
He’s scheduled to look within the Calgary Court docket of King’s Bench on Could 24 for the aim of scheduling a trial date.
-with information from Michael Rodriguez
KMartin@postmedia.com
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