Hat man accused in aggravated assault secures lawyer

By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on February 5, 2022.

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A Medicine Hat man accused in an aggravated assault involving a gun last November has secured a lawyer to answer that charge, and another lawyer to handle separate accusations that he threatened to burn down a house.

Jeremiah Amero was arrested in late November in Calgary after local police say he was involved in an early morning assault at a home on the Southwest Hill.

Local lawyer Lyndon Heidinger will represent him in that matter, Provincial Court heard on Thursday. Amero remains in custody with his next court date set for Feb. 10.

He has five other matters before the court, including several minor offences as well as a charge that Amero uttered threats, for which he has engaged defence attorney Vincent Guinan, of the Lethbridge-based firm, the Hadford Defence Group.

In June 2020, police issued a press release that Amero was arrested after a report that a man was approached in the area of Division Avenue by another male who they say produced a weapon.

Plea in hate case

A trial for a Hat man accused of breaking the terms of his sentence for inciting hatred against Jews can now be scheduled after he officially entered a plea.

The lawyer for Loki Holger Hulgaard registered a not-guilty plea for his client on Thursday’s docket court, a requirement for the file to move to a trial co-ordinator.

Crown and defence attorneys had tried to move the case to that stage last week, but the process was halted by the lack of a plea.

Attorneys say a three-day trial may be needed. Dates could be set on Feb. 9.

Hulgaard is charged with breaking the terms of a Court of Queens Bench undertaking.

That is related to a sentence of one-year house arrest and subsequent curfew and two years probation, during which time he was to undergo counselling, not make public or online statements about Jews, remove previous internet posts and not attend several addresses in Medicine Hat.

At the time of his sentencing several gun-related charges were stayed.

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