Trevor Birtch’s complicated personal life has evolved into a tangled web of legal delays, adjournments, mistrials and unexpected twists through the criminal justice system.

The disgraced former mayor of Woodstock was back in a London courtroom Friday afternoon on his own where he was granted an adjournment of his sentencing hearing for convictions stemming from his second sexual assault trial that began almost a year ago.

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Birtch, 50, was given more time by Superior Court Justice Spencer Nicholson to continue his search for a new defence lawyer after James Battin, his counsel for his four criminal cases, was ordered disbarred by the Law Society of Ontario in May over legal aid payment issues.

The need for a defence lawyer is urgent in the case, especially after assi

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