Posted AT 6:43 PM EDT on 06/12/07
Judge revises charge to Pickton jury
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — The long legal proceedings against Robert Pickton took a dramatic turn Thursday as Judge James Williams advised jurors he had made an error in his charge to them last week.
He said that he had not been "sufficiently precise" when he instructed them on what the Crown needed to prove to determine Mr. Pickton's guilt on the murders of three of the six women he is charged with killing.
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