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Resource News International, August, 2006

Winnipeg, MB, Aug 10, 2006 (Resource News International via COMTEX) --

PICKTON TO BE INITIALLY TRIED ON 6 COUNTS OF MURDER

Robert Pickton will first be tried on six counts of murder after a B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled Wednesday that the 26 first-degree murder charges against him be split into two parts.

Justice James Williams said trying all 26 murder counts at once would impose an unreasonable burden on the jury because of the anticipated length of the trial, the volume and nature of the evidence, and the complexity of the legal tasks.

Williams said the prosecution could still seek a separate trial or trials for Pickton on the other 20 murder counts. The victims disappeared from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside over several years....

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