The B.C. Court of Appeal has granted convicted serial killer Cody Alan Legebokoff the extension needed for a February appeal of his convictions to proceed.
The time limit for appeals is set at 30 days from the date of his September 2014 conviction, but Legebokoff's counsel filed an application requesting some lenience. No verbal reasons were given for the decision dated August 6 which simply reads "extension of time for the filing of the notice of appeal, granted to February 12, 2015."
That was also the date Legebokoff's lawyer filed the appeal of his murder convictions of three women and a teenaged girl in Prince George and area.
At the time, the justice branch could not clarify the basis for the appeal.
Legebokoff was sentenced to life in prison without eligibility to apply for parole for 25 years for the first degree murders Stacey Stuchenko, 35, Natasha Montgomery, 24, Cynthia Maas, 35, and Loren Leslie, 15.
A jury found him guilty of the charges following a three-and-half-month trial at the Prince George courthouse.
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