"The delays come in light of an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada in a separate case that could undermine the murder charges laid against Law. The Crown is appealing a ruling by Ontario's top court that suggests a person may only be liable for murder if they provided a person who died by suicide with the lethal substance and "overbore the victim's freewill in choosing suicide.""
"In a $2-million civil case, Jeshennia Bedoya Lopez's parents allege Law sold her a suicide kit' online that she later used during a mental health crisis. Law has denied wrongdoing. His lawyer, Matthew Gourlay, of Henein Hutchison Robitaille LLP, has said his client will plead not guilty. Law is scheduled to appear in a Newmarket courtroom by video link from jail next Monday. He has been in custody since his arrest at his Mississauga home in May 2023."
Kenneth Law faces 14 counts of first-degree murder and 14 counts of counselling or aiding suicide linked to deaths across Ontario, including Toronto, London and Thunder Bay. His jury trial in Newmarket has been rescheduled twice and is now set to begin in April 2026 after lawyers met with the Crown and Justice Michelle Fuerst. The delays follow an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada in a separate case that could affect legal liability where a person supplied a lethal substance and whether that supply "overbore the victim's freewill." Law has denied wrongdoing, will plead not guilty, and has been in custody since May 2023.
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