A hearing for Cory Smockum, 38, was to be heard in Saskatoon Court of Queen’s Bench on Feb. 1 but isn’t proceeding after Smockum changed lawyers. This means there is insufficient time for his new lawyer to be ready for a two-week Dangerous Offender Hearing. In July 2020, Justice Grant Currie granted the Crown’s application to hold a Dangerous Offender Hearing for Smockum. He was found guilty in February 2020 of attempted murder after a five-day trial in Saskatoon Court of Queen’s Bench. The charges are a result of an incident Oct. 14, 2018, near Hanley, Sask. The court heard that Smockum sexually and physically assaulted his former girlfriend in a garage and threated to kill “everyone he could that night.”