HALIFAX -- The lawyer for a man accused in the fatal beating of Halifax gay rights activist Raymond Taavel says his client will stand trial.
Donald Murray says Andre Noel Denny, who is charged with second-degree murder, will stand trial in Nova Scotia Supreme Court.
Murray said outside provincial court that the defence has agreed to commit it to trial but wants to hear from witnesses at Denny's preliminary inquiry, which got underway today.
A publication ban has been placed on evidence presented during the hearings.
Three days have been set aside.
Taavel was beaten to death when he tried to break up an early-morning fight between two men outside a bar on Gottingen Street on April 17th, 2012.
Hours before Taavel's death, Denny had been released by the East Coast Forensic Hospital on an unsupervised one-hour pass, but he failed to return.
He was later arrested.
