Brazeau’s senate expense trial postponed until June 2017
Posted March 4, 2016 10:20 am.
Last Updated March 4, 2016 10:33 am.
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The trial for Sen. Patrick Brazeau is being postponed until June 12 of next year.
Brazeau’s lawyer, Christian Deslauriers, appeared before a judge Friday morning at the Ottawa courthouse asking for a delay in Brazeau’s trial on fraud and breach of trust in relation to the Senate expense scandal.
Brazeau himself did not appear, and his lawyer requested a bilingual judge.
The delay was requested after the senator made an apparent suicide attempt in January, and was rushed to hospital.
Brazeau has since been active on Twitter, sending out a tweet at the end of February that just said the word “life.” It also had a picture attached of the senator and his daughter, who was born in the fall of 2015.
Brazeau’s trial was originally supposed to begin March 29 of this year.
