Nelson Hart is shown in court during closing arguments at his trial in Gander, Nfld., Monday, March 26, 2007.Tara Brautigam/The Canadian Press
A verdict for Nelson Hart on charges arising from a scuffle with a jail guard has been delayed until June 25.
Defence lawyer Jeff Brace says the decision was put off today because the judge needed more time to rule.
Hart, now 46, was imprisoned in St. John's, N.L., on June 24, 2013 pending an appeal of a murder conviction in the deaths of his three-year-old twin daughters.
A jail guard who spilled Hart's lunch in a clash that ended with Hart being hauled to segregation with his pants around his ankles denied in court he was targeted.
The judge-alone trial on three charges of making threats and one count of mischief to property wrapped up earlier this spring.
In a video shown during the trial, Hart was seen swinging a hot kettle into a wall-mounted television after a guard spilled his meal and then gathered other food not allowed in his cell.
A police officer testified he saw purple bruises and scratches on Hart later that week, but guards have denied hitting him.
Hart was freed last August after the Crown said it lacked evidence to retry him for first-degree murder in the 2002 drownings of his daughters at Gander Lake.