Murder Trial On Hold
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at 16:06
The trial of a man accused of murdering an Onion Lake woman remains in limbo.
Lawyers for the Crown and Defence spent Tuesday afternoon preparing for a voire dire, a trial within a trial, to determine if evidence from a jailhouse informant can be admitted.
Defense lawyer Morris Bodnar raised that question Tuesday morning.
Lawyers briefly researched it Tuesday and agreed with Judge Neil Gabrielson to hold a voire dire on the matter on Wednesday.
Forty-six-year-old Alberta trucker Gordon Dwight Hurley is charged with second-degree murder of 20-year-old Jarita Naistus.
Naistus was found dead in a Lloydminster motel room in October of 2005.
In 2007, Hurley was found guilty of her murder and sentenced to life in prison.
That conviction was successfully appealed, which resulted in this second trial.