Murder trial in Edmonton prison slaying will go ahead — appeal court rules on stayed charge

A man whose murder charge was stayed because of court delays will go to trial after all, following a decision by the province’s appeal court.
Lance Matthew Regan was charged with first-degree murder after the 2011 fatal stabbing of Mason Tex Montgrand. Both men were inmates at Edmonton Institution at the time of Montgrand’s death, but after the case took more than five years to go to trial, Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Stephen Hillier stayed the charge, citing a Supreme