St. John’s Murder Case to Proceed Directly to Trial, Bypassing Preliminary Inquiry

Murder case skips prelim and goes straight to higher court

Three people accused of being involved in a murder last year in St. John’s are having their case bypass a preliminary inquiry and go directly to trial at a higher court. NTV’s Rosie Mullaley reports.

St. John’s Murder Case to Proceed Directly to Trial, Bypassing Preliminary Inquiry

The Crown has scrapped plans for a preliminary inquiry in a St. John’s murder case, getting the OK to proceed straight to trial. Five days were set aside for the prelim, designed to dissect and vet the evidence to determine if there’s enough of it to warrant a trial. But the province’s Attorney General has the power, in more serious and complicated matters, to permit the Crown to skip the inquiry and got right to trial by what’s known as a direc…