{"id":88729,"date":"2017-02-09T21:26:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T02:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=88729"},"modified":"2017-02-09T21:26:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T02:26:26","slug":"convicted-killer-wants-murder-charge-in-another-case-stayed-due-to-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/09\/convicted-killer-wants-murder-charge-in-another-case-stayed-due-to-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"Convicted killer wants murder charge in another case stayed due to delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_88730\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88730\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16508470_710916012401975_387224845276065673_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88730\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16508470_710916012401975_387224845276065673_n.jpg\" alt=\"A lawyer for a convicted killer who is also accused of murdering a Toronto woman says the murder charge in that case should be stayed because it's been nearly three years since the charge was laid. (Photo: Dellen Millard Discuss The Case\/Facebook)\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16508470_710916012401975_387224845276065673_n.jpg 620w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16508470_710916012401975_387224845276065673_n-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88730\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A lawyer for a convicted killer who is also accused of murdering a Toronto woman says the murder charge in that case should be stayed because it&#8217;s been nearly three years since the charge was laid. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DellenMillardDiscussTheCase\/photos\/basw.Abr68Ss4KQKH8fK-18bBcLDoRqmrpA0OjK0SH24C8ODn8Uch2jcUig2ouse1xXdVsBbuVTq6MRLzIeOu5N_4UbnP0qLDOPBZQg-A6uAmsaARbyQsua4DoVGLz2pawZAH2_mh4Dbw0yd4KZ0ZSxyvqMAL.710916012401975.1368092056558085.569320796561498.677162312444012.182145931945655.938546809568125\/710916012401975\/?type=1&amp;opaqueCursor=Abp_flgc9KPP-fLyOvNJcJtvpb1n5vRZWxgPVgF5NorR6ivI69_ni4x9oTklSTBTHJl02jYYFAOvSBm6l53ERIcLAkIRsulOvbJC2-t1ACoxJp622Xag4QEVrQjD82vWECAKSSO7cq_EIuGur4i6B-5qtycPYt64FkyxfJY46L1Ol39f6Ns-R-FWNdcMIBNSY_BtohUNoNrlfB6cJUS-WVMjg4VO0TCmRjeyG6mdZWehI-pVg4WL4CD7rAeRpYrExNzntQSO7LLB8AJRw_-v0FYzbuylDqvVUbGopb0XlB4XVFmdqarC-9DHgm9yLQfi6TWDpEWuRNB47StuLadiqUX7FUCYLB-Su19yC9_4_xLBPR9QliR9vouFjUPbUYtpmnrjNwUgq1Vcp7YpRJt0mamNzv-5hirIoWv6_8kZFtDJMyd2cRTgtLKNPQwRTpFE9zHm72ZBts9dcbTCTTyfmsP7hYRBAvHxthYHt4QSOTyN2yiljl3BdhYlxSdGPUAgXSOIyN-fwow0hhaWTAlo9pNr3_YZhgWtc4X22l02e4ajhVtld8wkeaXWEWcDsnBomzjZ88x9VHGidgX8FMnfM8mwjjnd3vHFizGLJCMAD87dEmEwCKpTNuzK48sv_2AZBol2Sygm4f998C10mEo_ADbF1Euiput3SEqXNXNEkpDkRHIXA8990ki9Q4xn_5vge9k&amp;theater\">Dellen Millard Discuss The Case\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO\u2014A lawyer for a convicted killer who is also accused of murdering a Toronto woman says the murder charge in that case should be stayed because it&#8217;s been nearly three years since the charge was laid.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Dungey told court Thursday he will make the formal request in an application to court because his client, Mark Smich, has to be tried within a reasonable time.<\/p>\n<p>A Supreme Court of Canada ruling in 2016 concluded delays must not exceed 30 months in superior courts and 18 months for cases at the provincial level.<\/p>\n<p>Smich, 29, of Oakville, Ont., and his former friend, Dellen Millard, 31, of Toronto, were charged in April 2014 with first-degree murder in the death of Laura Babcock.<\/p>\n<p>The pair was convicted last year of first-degree murder in the death Tim Bosma, a 32-year-old Hamilton man who vanished in 2013 after taking two strangers for a test drive in a truck he was trying to sell.<\/p>\n<p>The trial in Babcock&#8217;s case is scheduled to begin on Sept. 11\u2014about 41 months after the murder charges against Smich and Millard were laid.<\/p>\n<p>Millard is also charged with first-degree murder in the 2012 death of his father, Wayne Millard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO\u2014A lawyer for a convicted killer who is also accused of murdering a Toronto woman says the murder charge in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":88730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,16],"tags":[14968,14967,14966],"class_list":["post-88729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-dellen-millard","tag-mark-smich","tag-thomas-dungey","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}