Facing new charges in North Bay, Wright is already serving a life sentence for the 1998 murder of Renée Sweeney in Sudbury
Robert Steven Wright made another court appearance March 27 for an update on his case. Wright, convicted of second-degree murder in the death of Sudbury woman Renée Sweeney, is facing charges of criminal harassment, forcible confinement and two counts of sexual assault from incidents in North Bay predating his Sudbury murder conviction.
In court Feb. 28, a representative of Wright’s lawyer Joseph Wilkinson, said the defence has yet to receive the complainant’s statement. That was the same complaint of counsel at Wright’s March 27 hearing. Crown Attorney Terri Regimbal replied that she could not open the necessary file, but she spoke with the assigned Crown on the case, Sharon Tysick.
Wilkinson was retained by Wright soon after murder conviction and is the lawyer who filed a notice of appeal in the case, though the appeal itself has not been filed as yet.
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