‘This is going nowhere fast,’ says judge as P.E.I. woman’s arson sentencing adjourned again
CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — Sentencing has been postponed once more for a P.E.I. girl convicted of beginning a fireplace at a Charlottetown residence constructing.
On March 4 in provincial courtroom in Charlottetown, Grace Might Sark’s legal-aid lawyer Trish Cheverie appeared by phone to request one other adjournment on behalf of her consumer. Sark, 40, additionally wasn’t in courtroom for the adjournment request.
Cheverie requested the adjournment to provide her extra time to assessment further disclosure info for sentencing.
Crown legal professional Lisa Goulden additionally famous that an up to date Gladue Report with respect to Sark hadn’t been accomplished.
A Gladue Report offers the courtroom with related info of an Indigenous particular person’s background for sentencing. Sark was beforehand scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 20 and Jan. 28. Nonetheless, sentencing was adjourned each instances partly as a result of the up to date Gladue Report wasn’t completed.
Cheverie defined that the report is being ready by employees members on the Mi’kmaq Confederacy of P.E.I., however they’re having problem finishing it as a result of “they haven’t been in a position to find my consumer.”
Sark pleaded responsible on Oct. 28 to arson with respect to the residence constructing hearth at 224 Euston St. in Charlottetown. A earlier story in The Guardian mentioned the hearth occurred on the morning of April 5, 2021. The constructing was partially broken by the hearth, and a few of the tenants needed to be taken to the hospital for remedy. The Charlottetown Hearth Division obtained the decision that morning at 7:15 a.m. Sark was arrested a couple of days later and charged with arson.
The arson cost includes “deliberately or recklessly” inflicting harm by hearth with disregard for human life. A sufferer impression assertion was filed with the courtroom in November.
Sark additionally pleaded responsible to failing to attend courtroom on June 3 and Oct. 12. On these courtroom dates, Chief Decide Jeff Lantz issued a warrant for her arrest. Each instances, Sark was re-arrested after which launched from custody by a justice of the peace. Sark is at the moment not being held in custody.
Lantz indicated that the adjournment request will be the final one as a result of “that is going nowhere quick,” he mentioned.
Lantz adjourned the matter for information and sentencing to March 25 at 9 a.m., which is roughly two weeks shy of the one-year anniversary of the hearth.
Court docket data present that Sark’s matter has now been adjourned 15 instances since she first appeared in courtroom in Might on the arson cost.
Terrence McEachern is the justice reporter for SaltWire Community in Charlottetown. [email protected] @PEIGuardian
