TORONTO — Legal professionals are set to start authorized arguments in the present day for 4 women scheduled to face trial this 12 months over their alleged position in a lethal group assault on a homeless man in Toronto.
The teenagers are a part of a gaggle police allege swarmed and stabbed Kenneth Lee, a 59-year-old man who was dwelling within the metropolis’s shelter system, in December 2022.
Eight women between the ages of 13 and 16 had been arrested within the hours after Lee’s loss of life.
All of them had been charged with second-degree homicide, and 4 have since pleaded responsible to lesser charges of manslaughter or assault.
A judge-only trial is scheduled this month for 2 of the remaining women on charges of second-degree homicide.
The opposite two are set to be tried by a choose and jury in Might, one for second-degree homicide and the opposite for manslaughter.
All 4 of the women headed to trial had been initially imagined to have their case determined by a jury, however two of them not too long ago switched to a judge-alone trial after the Crown and choose agreed to a request from their attorneys.
The circumstances have been {split} into two trials as a result of scheduling points.
Not one of the accused will be recognized as a result of they’re underage.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Jan. 13, 2025.
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