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UPDATE: 4:38 p.m.
The Supreme Court voir dire hearing in the Curtis Sagmoen case has adjourned for the day and will resume Wednesday at 10 a.m.
Voir dire statements continued Tuesday afternoon and those details are still covered by the temporary publication ban.
It is expected that Justice Alison Beames will hear arguments from the defence counsel and from a lawyer representing CBC on Thursday regarding the ban.
NOTE:
The report from proceedings on Sept. 9 described the defendant smirking as he left the courtroom as the lunch break began.
To add context, the defendant was reacting to a quip from the attending sheriff's officer as they prepared to leave the court room.
UPDATE: 10:14 a.m.
Justice Alison Beames put off the decision on removing the temporary publication ban on details emerging from the voir dire until after all lawyers statements could be heard.
UPDATE: 10:09 a.m.
CBC and Global formally argued against the publication ban Tuesday morning, with support from Castanet and InfoNews.
Crown lawyer Simone McCallum told the court that she no longer has a position on the publication ban after consulting with colleagues.
ORIGINAL: 9:41 A.M.
Day 2 of the Curtis Sagmoen trial will start at 10 a.m. today with a media challenge of the temporary publication ban of details emerging from the voir dire hearing.
Sagmoen presented five not guilty pleas to charges stemming from a 2017 allegation of violent acts involving a sex trade worker in Falkland Monday at his judge-only trial at Vernon Supreme Court.
Justice Alison Beames said the proposed pub ban of testimony from the voir dire — a mini-trial within a trial — on a judge-only case would be "unusual" on Monday, but she granted the temporary ban pending the challenge this morning.
Crown lawyer Simone McCallum and defence lawyer Lisa Helps jointly proposed the ban.
Sagmoen was initially facing eight charges but McCallum stayed three charges of careless use of a firearm, pointing a firearm and possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose.
The charges stem from an incident in August 2017 near Falkland where a sex worker alleges she was threatened with a weapon before she managed to escape.
Sagmoen has been behind bars since his arrest in September 2017.
In October 2017, police searched a farm owned by Sagmoen's parents on Salmon River Road near Silver Creek where they found the remains of Traci Genereaux.
No connection between Genereaux and Sagmoen has been made and he is not facing any charges relating to her death.
Police have called Genereaux's death suspicious.
Other allegations of violent acts against women by Sagmoen have also been made and on Feb. 4 Sagmoen pleaded guilty to an assault charge stemming from an incident in the Lower Mainland in 2013.
Sagmoen was originally charged with assault causing bodily harm in an attack on a sex trade worker in Maple Ridge, but entered a guilty plea to a lesser charge and was sentenced to 30 days in jail.
