Brandon Phillips's bail hearing set for end of November
A bail hearing has been set at Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court for Brandon Phillips, the man accused of killing Larry Wellman at a St. John's hotel in early October.
Phillips, 27, is facing a number of charges, the most serious of which is first-degree murder, stemming from an armed robbery at the Captain's Quarters Hotel in St. John's Oct. 3.
Phillips, who according to his defence team is a good candidate for bail, will head for a hearing on Nov. 25.
During a court appearance at provincial court Monday morning, defence lawyer Jeff Brace indicated that he and Mark Gruchy are still awaiting further disclosure in the case.
No-contact order
Mark Heerema and Shauna Macdonald, lawyers with Nova Scotia Public Prosecutions Service, have been brought in on the case to avoid what the justice department in Newfoundland and Labrador calls a potential conflict of interest.
In the meantime, an application has been made to allow Phillips to have contact with his mother, Deborah Phillips.
The prosecutors on the case have "indicated their willingness to consent" to allow a no-contact order to be lifted, according to the application filed by Brace.
She is on a no-contact list, along with Phillips's girlfriend Jade Ball, Captain's Quarters owner Marcel Etheridge, the employee working the night of the killing, and members of Wellman's family.
Wellman, 63, died en route to hospital after being shot while intervening an armed robbery.
