A man accused of murdering a Fraser Lake teen in November has chosen trial by judge and jury in B.C. Supreme Court.
Cody Legebokoff, 20, faces a charge of first degree murder in the death of 15-year-old Loren Donn Leslie. Her body was found Nov. 27 near Vanderhoof in the area of an unused logging road near Highway 27.
RCMP made the discovery after a suspicious vehicle was stopped north of Vanderhoof on that night, and followed tire tracks to the location.
Lawyers are scheduled to meet Sept. 24 to fix dates for the proceedings and Legebokoff remains in custody.
Meanwhile, a jury selection is scheduled for Sept. 26 for Gerald Miles Pattison, who faces a charge of second-degree murder in the Oct. 17, 2008 death of Ryan Edward Hibbs in Salmon Valley.
And two murder retrials remain ongoing.
Testimony before a jury began Thursday for Jesse Norman Sweder, accused of murdering Peter Jean Letendre on Dec. 11, 2004.
It's the second trial for Sweder on the matter after the first one ended in a hung jury in July 2010 and is expected to last eight weeks.
And since Monday, Ricky John Smith has faced a trial by judge alone in the Oct. 30, 2004 of Brent Melanson, who bled to death in the parking lot of the Third Avenue Dairy Queen from a wound to his neck. Melanson was carrying a machete at the time of the incident.
In March 2006, Smith was sentenced to life without eligibility for parole for 13 years.
But in January 2010 he won a retrial when the B.C. Court of Appeal found the justice had "unfairly and inaccurately" summarized evidence from one of the forensic pathologists when giving instructions to the jury.
