Not Criminally Responsible

• ‘Doing God’s will’: Accused in Edmonton Corn Maze stabbing claims victim was a Nazi

  Michael Ferzli is on trial for murder in the August 2024 corn maze stabbing of Joseph Farnsworth, but is seeking to be found not criminally responsible due to having schizophrenia.

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  Sep 29
  
• Man found NCR for fatally stabbing Etobicoke Good Samaritan who offered him place to stay

  The judge found that a major mental disorder, known as delusional disorder, rendered Passarelli unable to appreciate the moral wrongfulness of his actions.

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  Sep 14
  
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• Toronto mother who threw baby boy to his death down garbage chute found NCR

  A Toronto woman who threw her four-month-old son down a garbage chute, killing him inside a midtown apartment building in 2024, has been found not criminally responsible.

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  May 6
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• Toronto man who admits to killing girlfriend found NCR, family outraged

  The victim impact statements came at the end of an uncontested NCR hearing, which began with Michael Calvo admitting to killing his girlfriend on Oct. 15, 2023.

  Crime

  Oct 27, 2025
• Family of Toronto man fatally shot in 2022 upset about not criminally responsible defence

  It was Dec. 30, 2022, when 37-year-old Devret Clarke, a former neighbour of Gars Kourjakian's, drove into the underground parkade behind him and shot him.

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  Feb 13, 2025
• Child-killer Allan Schoenborn retains leave privileges from B.C. psychiatric hospital

  Schoenborn, who recently changed his name to Ken John Johnson, fatally stabbed and smothered his three young children to death in Merritt in 2008.

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  Jun 28, 2024
• Child-killer Allan Schoenborn thinks public should ‘lighten up,’ doctor tells hearing

  Schoenborn, who recently changed his name to Ken John Johnson, stabbed and smothered his three young children to death in Merritt in 2008.

  Crime

  Jun 25, 2024
• B.C. child-killer’s attempt to keep new identity secret draws widespread outrage

  A review hearing for Allan Schoenborn, who killed his three children in Merritt 16 years ago, revealed Wednesday that Schoenborn legally changed his name in February.

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  Apr 18, 2024
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• Man found not criminally responsible in Nanaimo coffee shop killing

  James Turok was charged with second-degree murder in the February 2022 death of 79-year-old Eric Kutzner, who was found with a dozen stab wounds at the Buzz Coffee House.

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  Mar 27, 2024
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• Accused Vancouver Chinatown stabber loses ban application

  A B.C. man accused of a triple stabbing in Vancouver's Chinatown has lost his bid to seal a document that identified him as a "significant threat" before he was released.

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  Nov 1, 2023