Lengthy dangerous offender hearing underway for Lance Blanchard

The first of eight Crown witnesses to testify in a dangerous offender hearing for a man convicted of a violent sexual assault against an Indigenous woman appeared in an Edmonton court Monday.
Lance David Blanchard, 60, who was found guilty of aggravated sexual assault, aggravated assault, kidnapping, unlawful confinement, possession of a weapon and making a death threat in the 2014 attack, could receive an indeterminate prison sentence if designated a dangerous offender.
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