HALIFAX - A Halifax man extradited from the United States to face two murder charges in Nova Scotia has been sent for further psychiatric assessment.
Glen Race faces first-degree murder charges in the deaths of Michael Knott and Trevor Brewster.
Knott's body was found on a wooded path in southwestern Nova Scotia on May 5, 2007, and Brewster's body was found four days later under a boardwalk at a lake in Halifax.
Race had earlier been ordered to undergo psychiatric assessments to determine whether he's fit to stand trial and if he was mentally competent at the time of the alleged offences.
During a court hearing Friday, he was sent for a further 30 days of assessment and is due back in court on Dec. 17.
But the Crown said they were concerned the doctor will not have all of the information in the case to fairly complete the assessment.
Defence lawyer Joel Pink said Dr. Scott Theriault of the East Coast Forensic Hospital has all of Race's medical information from a hospital where he was treated.
Pink said Theriault has also interviewed Race and his parents.
"There's a long history here of mental illness, so that information has been made available to Dr. Theriault," he said outside court. "That may be all that is needed for him to come to his opinion."
Pink has said he expects the court will consider Race's paranoid schizophrenia in dealing with the case.
Race was brought back to Nova Scotia last month from the U.S., where he is serving a life sentence in the murder of a New York man on May 10, 2007.
The Crown does not have several reports by doctors done after the incident in New York, which were not used in Race's earlier murder trial.
He was arrested on May 15, 2007, trying to cross the U.S.-Mexican border and brought back for trial in New York.
Pink said he may withdraw his request to have the not criminally responsible assessment done at this time if Theriault is unable to complete his report over the next 30 days.
