Rene Merasty, 24, pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder when his judge-alone trial began Monday in Saskatoon Court of King's Bench.
In her opening statement, Crown prosecutor Carla Dewar said a teen girl, who cannot be named because she was 15 at the time,and received a three-year youth sentence in connection with Belanger-Weeseekase’s death.
Zubkow said he initially administered Naloxone — medication that reverses the effects of an opioid overdose — when he found Belanger-Weeseekase, and performed CPR on her with a mask after she had briefly vomited. A video from the apartment, taken by Joslin, documented the bathroom, where a bottle of bleach was found underneath a black garbage bag and near a bucket between the tub and the toilet.
Const. Chad Brooks, who transported Merasty to the police station, testified that he gave him a fake name. According to a police news release,two weeks later while he was in custody at Saskatchewan Penitentiary on unrelated charges. Things “took a turn” when Merasty, Belanger-Weeseekase and the teen girl returned to the Diefenbaker apartment suite where Merasty’s relatives lived, Dewar said.
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