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Lance Littlewolfe is charged with second-degree murder in the death of 24-year-old Daxon Hornick-Schmidt. Sask. Courts photo A lawyer for a man accused of murder is filing an application to have his client deemed Not Criminally Responsible (NCR) by reason of a mental disorder. On July 26, North Battleford lawyer Andrew Lyster told Lloydminster Provincial Court that defence was filing a 672.11 order for 35-year-old Lance Dwayne Littlewolfe. Lyster said that they are waiting for a hospital bed to become available at the Saskatchewan Hospital psychiatric unit in North Battleford. If someone is deemed NCR by reason of a mental disorder this means they admit the actions but not the crimes. An NCR verdict results in no jail sentence and is as if no crime has been committed.
North Battleford Legal Aid lawyer Andrew Lyster told the court that he just received “basic disclosure” and asked for a one-month adjournment. According to RCMP, at about 5 p.m. on April 17, 2021, RCMP responded to the 5300 block of 50 Avenue in Lloydminster for a report of a deceased man on the sidewalk. He was later identified as Daxon Hornick-Schmidt. An obituary for Daxon said he attended school in the United States, Canada and Germany, and was fluent in German. Daxon graduated from North Battleford high school in 2014 and went on to attend Lakeland College with a desire to further his writing skills.