HALIFAX - A preliminary hearing is underway in Halifax to determine admissibility of evidence in the case of two people charged with first-degree murder in the death of Loretta Saunders.
The hearing for Blake Leggette and Victoria Henneberry started yesterday.
Their four-week jury trial is scheduled to start April 20th in Nova Scotia Supreme Court.
However, Henneberry's lawyer has said he wants to have his client tried separately.
Judge Josh Arnold says he first wants to hear witnesses and arguments on the admissibility of evidence in Leggette's case.
As usual, the evidence presented at the hearing is banned from publication.
Leggette and Henneberry were arrested after the 26-year-old woman disappeared from her Halifax apartment last February.
Her body was found near the Trans-Canada Highway in New Brunswick two weeks later.
