Overview

• Two forensic psychiatrists, Dr. Robert Lacroix and Dr. Rakesh Lamba, concluded their testimony on July 24 assessing Adam Kai-Ji Lo’s fitness to stand trial for the Lapu Lapu Day festival attack.
• Lo faces 11 counts of second-degree murder after prosecutors approved three additional charges matching the number of victims in the April 26 incident.
• Judge Reg Harris imposed a sweeping publication ban on all evidence and testimony from the fitness hearing to protect the integrity of the future trial.
• A media consortium that includes The Canadian Press, represented by lawyer Daniel Coles, is challenging the publication ban in court.
• The fitness hearing is paused until August 22 to allow for further legal arguments and a potentially influential Supreme Court ruling.