, girl were mostly attributable to the defence and"discrete exceptional events," as he argued against the case being thrown out over delays.
Daniel Porte told a B.C. Supreme Court judge that if those events were subtracted, the remaining delays to Ibrahim Ali's trial would have amounted to about 25 months, falling within the allowable threshold. If the so-called Jordan application by lawyers for Ali is successful, he will be set free without sentencing for the 2017 killing.
Defence lawyer Kevin McCullough argued last week that his client had been in custody and charged with first-degree murder for more than 63 months by the time the trial ended, more than double the 30-month limit set by the Supreme Court of Canada.The body of the girl, whose name is covered by a publication ban, was found in Burnaby's Central Park in July 2017, and Ali was charged with first-degree murder about one year later.
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