An accused killer will be seeking a ruling that she was not criminally responsible for the 2021 Kelowna killing due to a mental disorder she was suffering at the time.
Gabriella Sears long-delayed murder trial continues to slowly wind its way through Kelowna court, and her new application to change her name on the court filing threatens to cause more delay.
An accused Kelowna killer is now onto her fourth lawyer after she fired her first two mid-trial last November and her next lawyer quit last month. But the murder trial, which ran for 17 days last year
A judge in a Kelowna murder trial won t be able to finish the delayed trial, as she’ll be “statutorily retired” by the time the trial is expected to conclude.