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Posted: Apr 06, 2021 11:43 AM AT | Last Updated: April 6 Sem Paul Obed has faced a dangerous offender hearing in Nova Scotia Supreme Court.(Halifax Regional Police) Sem Paul Obed has opted to call no evidence in his own defence, bringing his dangerous offender hearing in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Halifax to an abrupt and early end. This week had been set aside to hear defence evidence. But Obeds lawyer, Brad Sarson, informed the court Tuesday morning that wouldnt be happening. The Crown and ...

Posted: Feb 19, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: February 19 Sem Paul Obed is shown in a photo provided by Halifax Regional Police in 2014.(Halifax Regional Police) A corrections officer who worked with Sem Paul Obed in the 1990s testified at his dangerous offender hearing Thursday in Halifax about the obstacles Indigenous inmates faced, including racism, poverty and substance abuse. The dangerous offender hearing stems from a violent June 2018 sexual assault Obed admitted to committing. Th...

Posted: Feb 16, 2021 5:01 PM AT | Last Updated: February 16 Sem Paul Obed is shown at a 2018 court appearance in Halifax.(CBC) A Nova Scotia Supreme Court hearing opened Tuesday in Halifax for a man who pleaded guilty to a violent sexual assault in June 2018. The Crown is seeking to have Sem Paul Obed declared a dangerous offender and locked up indefinitely. According to information provided at the hearing where Obed entered his plea, the victim was sleeping when he appeared in her bedroom. H...