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CORNWALL — Lawyers spent Tuesday arguing which testimony and evidence the judge should consider when deciding the fate of the man charged with murdering Emilie Maheu.
Defence counsel Paolo Giancaterino spent Tuesday morning fighting the admission of some witness statements that supported Crown attorneys Elaine Evans’ and Isabel Blanchard’s arguments that the accused planned the killing of 26-year-old Maheu.
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Brandon Smeltzer, 27, was charged with planning and carrying out the killing of Maheu on Oct. 11, 2018, and faces life imprisonment with no possibility of parole for 25 years if convicted. Smeltzer, from Bayside, N.S., confessed to the killing a few days after the young Alexandria woman’s body was discovered in a Lancaster cornfield. He denied the killing was planned.