I know this board is really old, but I have some NEW INFORMATION on it. The trial dates have been set for the accused.
Trial date for suspect in triple murder to be set in July
Sherri Zickefoose, Calgary Herald
Published: Thursday, May 10, 2007
The arraignment for a 24-year-old man accused in the triple slaying of a Medicine Hat family has been adjourned until July.
Jeremy Allan Steinke will return to Medicine Hat's Court of Queen's Bench on July 19 to set a trial date.
He has been ordered to stand trial but has not yet entered a plea on three counts of first-degree murder.
His arraignment was adjourned Thursday.
A trial date will likely be scheduled for late next year, his lawyer, Alain Hepner, has said.
Steinke is accused of killing Marc and Debra Richardson and their eight-year-old son, Jacob, more than a year ago.
Steinke and his co-accused, a girl who was 12 at the time, are facing first-degree murder charges after the Richardson family was discovered slain in their home on April 23, 2006.
The girl has pleaded not guilty, and her trial is scheduled for next month. She is in custody at the Calgary Young Offenders Centre.
Friends say Steinke and the girl, who were arrested in Saskatchewan the day after the killings, were dating. The couple was found with several friends just across the Saskatchewan border, in Leader.
Steinke has completed a court-ordered psychiatric assessment at the Peter Lougheed Centre in Calgary.
He is remanded in custody in Medicine Hat.
Two other teenagers are charged with being accessories after the fact in connection with the killings.
Kacy Lancaster, 19, is accused of providing a false alibi and destroying evidence.
The other is a 16-year-old girl, whose identity is protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
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