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Judge Upholds Ban on Fitness-Hearing Evidence in Vancouver Festival Case

The order keeps psychiatric testimony from the summer fitness hearing under wraps until the trial concludes.

Overview

  • Provincial Court Judge Reginald P. Harris denied a media consortium’s challenge, keeping the publication ban on fitness-hearing evidence in place until the end of the trial.
  • A day earlier, the judge found Kai‑Ji Adam Lo fit to stand trial and ordered his continued detention in hospital due to mental illness.
  • Prosecutors added 31 attempted murder charges tied to surviving victims, on top of 11 counts of second‑degree murder already laid.
  • Two forensic psychiatrists testified at the July fitness hearing, but their evidence and related details remain covered by the ban.
  • Police say an SUV drove into the Lapu Lapu Day street festival on April 26 in Vancouver, killing 11 people and injuring many others.