The Prince George courthouse will be the scene of more high-profile trials in 2018, starting with one carrying over from 2017.
Brothers Darren and Kurtis Sundman, and Sebastian Martin stand accused of first-degree murder in the January 2015 death of Jordan Tayor McLeod.
The B.C. Supreme Court trial before judge alone began in mid-October with the last of the testimony expected to end in mid-January.
Crown is alleging the trio murdered McLeod at a spot on Upper Fraser Road after getting into a drug-related argument and then dumped his body in a remote area northwest of the city.
Cases against a handful of others facing counts of murder are also progressing.
A trial is scheduled for May for Annie Jean Anatole, accused of stabbing to death a 31-year-old resident of the Tachie reserve in July 2016.
Accused of a January 2017 double murder, Seaver Tye Miller, Aaron Ryan Moore, Joshua Steven West and Perry Andrew Charlie will see their cases go to the preliminary hearing stage in February.
They were arrested after the bodies of Thomas Burt Reed of Burns Lake and David Laurin Franks of Prince George were found in a car after police were called to a report of shots fired on Foothills Boulevard near North Nechako Drive.
They also face a charge of attempted murder against a third man, the lone survivor of what police have called a targeted shooting. His name has not been released.
Likewise, a preliminary hearing for Christopher Clarke Prince is set to go in July. He's charged with second-degree murder in the May 20 death of Shane Whitford near the corner of Oak Street and Porter Avenue.
And in April, a preliminary hearing is set to go in Whitehorse for former Prince George man Edward James Penner. He faces a count of first-degree murder in the May 20 death of Adam Cormack.
The cases against a father and son from what police have described as a "brutal attack" on a woman on a remote logging road is set to proceed in late January. James Stanley Filiatraut and William Thomas Filiatraut have pleaded guilty to attempted murder from the November 2016 incident.
And in February, Reuben Buhler is to be sentenced in Smithers on three counts of second-degree murder from the April 2015 deaths of Ridge Vern Vienneau, Ehr Ola Andersen and Mitchel Wade Ruttan in Burns Lake.
On other matters, Edward Owen Berry, a former manager with B.C.'s Ministry of Children and Family Development, is to be sentenced in April on child pornography charges.
And in June, Dustin Tisdale is up for sentencing on three Criminal Code charges from a March 2016 crash in the Hart that claimed the life of Devin Barks and sent three other people to hospital.
