Court docket look in the present day in Barrie put aside a number of weeks for pre-trial motions set Could, June and July, with trial to start Sept. 3
The trial of a Barrie man charged within the stabbing loss of life of a younger mom was confirmed by a choose Wednesday and is scheduled to go forward in September.
Robert MacQueen is scheduled to face trial on second-degree homicide starting Sept. 3 within the 1994 killing of 20-year-old Katherine Janeiro.
MacQueen was charged with first-degree homicide in January 2021, greater than 26 years after the physique of the younger mom was found in her Dunlop Road West residence, close to Anne Road. He was 58 years previous when he was arrested. The cost was decreased to second-degree homicide following a preliminary listening to in December 2022.
Not one of the allegations have been examined in courtroom and MacQueen is presumed responsible except confirmed harmless.
MacQueen was granted bail in July 2023.
As we speak’s trial affirmation in felony task courtroom, which was carried out by video convention, additionally set the dates for a number of weeks of motions to type by, with every week of defence motions beginning Could 27, then two weeks of motions starting June 10 and eventually one other week of motions set to start July 2.
The choose within the case agreed to maintain these courtroom dates in place, regardless of a few submission deadlines which had been missed by each side, in order to remain on schedule to satisfy the Sept. 3 trial date, courtroom heard.
Janeiro was discovered useless by associates on Oct. 10, 1994. On the time, police stated she suffered a number of stab wounds. Her two-year-old daughter had been visiting her grandparents on the time.
The preliminary Barrie police investigation included assist from the Ontario Provincial Police’s forensic identification bureau. Whereas the OPP took over the case in October 1999 to make the most of an unspecified investigative method, it was turned again to Barrie police in February 2012.
Police say investigators then tapped into newer forensic instruments by the Centre of Forensic Sciences to re-examine a number of the current proof.
MacQueen was charged on Jan. 13, 2021. Police on the time stated new info had come to mild a few yr earlier.
Police have stated Janeiro and McQueen knew one another.
