HALIFAX -- Lawyers began a pre-trial hearing Monday to determine the admissibility of evidence and to hear arguments on whether one of the two people charged in the death of Loretta Saunders will be granted a separate trial.
Blake Leggette and Victoria Henneberry are both charged with first-degree murder and their four-week jury trial is scheduled to start April 20 in the Nova Scotia Supreme Court.
Henneberry's defence lawyer has said he planned to bring a motion to have her tried separately during a pre-trial hearing this week.
But Judge Josh Arnold agreed Monday to first hear witnesses and arguments on the admissibility of evidence in Leggette's case.
The evidence is banned from publication.
Leggette and Henneberry were charged in the death of 26-year-old Saunders, who disappeared from her Halifax apartment last February.
Her body was found in a wooded area off the Trans-Canada Highway in New Brunswick two weeks later.
