VANCOUVER — A judge is expected to decide today whether the suspect in Vancouver's Lapu Lapu Day festival attack that killed 11 people is fit to stand trial.
Adam Kai-Ji Lo is accused of driving an SUV through a crowded street on April 26 and faces 11 counts of second-degree murder.
Two forensic psychiatrists were called as expert witnesses in the fitness hearing in July, before legal arguments from defence lawyer Mark Swartz and Crown prosecutor Michaela Donnelly.
A publication ban has prevented evidence at the fitness hearing being reported, although it does not cover the outcome.
A media consortium that includes The Canadian Press is challenging the publication ban, and Judge Reginald P. Harris is also expected to rule on that application today.
The attack that Mayor Ken Sim called