New trial dates will be set next month for a Red Deer man facing a host of charges in connection with a deadly collision on Taylor Drive on Canada Day in 2010.
Rodney Ross Arens, 35, was to have been tried later this month on charges arising from the two-vehicle crash that killed Anouluck “Jeffrey” Chanminaraj, 13, and injured his sister and brother, Stephanie and Jamie, who were 20 and 18 at the time.
Charges against Arens include dangerous driving causing death and impaired driving causing death and two counts each of dangerous driving causing injury and impaired driving causing injury along with refusing to provide a breath sample for police and breaching release conditions.
Arens was set to stand trial in Red Deer Court of Queen’s bench for eight weeks, starting on March 25.
However, the trial was postponed late in January when he fired his lawyer, Will Willms of Red Deer.
Back in Court of Queen’s Bench on Monday, Arens said he has hired a new lawyer, Craig Paterson of Ponoka, who will represent him at trial.
Arens and his Paterson are to return to court on April 8 to set a new date for the trial.