Two murder cases are scheduled to go through a second round of trials on Monday.
After a hung jury was reached in July 2010, Jesse Norman Sweder will face a new trial in the Dec. 11, 2004 shooting death of Peter Jean Letendre, whose body was found on Norwood Street near 20th Avenue. Jury selection is scheduled to be held Monday morning.
As well, a new trial is scheduled for Ricky John Smith in the Oct. 30, 2004 of Brent Melanson, who bled to death in the parking lot of the Third Avenue Dairy Queen from a machete wound to his neck.
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 B.C. Supreme Court Justice Ian Meiklem had "unfairly and inaccurately" summarized evidence from one of the forensic pathologists when giving instructions to the jury.
