The suspect is charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death last Sept. 5, of Danillo Canales Glenn, 18
It will be about another two weeks before a Calgary man learns whether he’ll have to stand trial for murder in the stabbing death of a city teen on a southeast basketball court.
Justice Karen Molle reserved her decision Monday at the conclusion of a preliminary inquiry against the accused, who is charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death last Sept. 5, of Danillo Canales Glenn, 18.
The Calgary Court of Justice judge asked Crown and defence lawyers to set a date in two weeks or less for her ruling on the case.
Molle reserved her ruling after hearing final submissions from Crown prosecutor Vicki Faulkner and defence counsel Andrea Urquhart on whether the 18-year-old accused should be ordered to stand trial before a jury on the charge he faces.
Urquhart made submissions that her client, who can’t be named because his younger brother, a youth, is also charged with Canales Glenn’s murder, should only be required to face a trial on a reduced charge of manslaughter.
At the beginning of the accused’s preliminary inquiry, Molle imposed a ban on publication on the evidence presented by the Crown.
Evidence in the trial of the accused’s brother, now 17, concluded June 27, but his lawyer, Alain Hepner, requested that Justice Eleanor Funk receive written submissions from counsel before oral arguments are made.
In his trial, court heard evidence Canales Glenn was shooting hoops with two friends at an arena in Copperfield, in the city’s southeast, when the group was attacked by two males.
The trio were pepper sprayed and, after his two friends fled the area, Canales Glenn was stabbed in the heart.
Earlier this month, dates were set for the continuation of that hearing, with oral arguments before Funk on Dec. 16, followed by a verdict from the Court of King’s Bench judge the following month.
A date for Molle’s decision will be set Wednesday.