The man convicted in August in connection with the fatal shooting eight years ago of Nicholas Khabra in South Surrey is alleging his rights to a trial within a reasonable time were violated.
Defence counsel Reza Mansoori-Dara confirmed Tuesday (Nov. 4) that delay is the basis of an application seeking to stay the convictions reached in the case against Brandon Nathan Teixeira. Dates for a hearing on the matter are scheduled to be set Thursday (Nov. 6).
“The delay application is for the entirety of the indictment,” Mansoori-Dara said.
Following a trial earlier this year in B.C. Supreme Court, a jury found Teixeira guilty of murder, attempted murder and discharge a firearm with intent in connection with Khabra’s Oct. 23, 2017 death and the wounding of a woman who testified that she was with Khabra on the day he was killed.
Teixeira was announced in September 2018 as a key suspect in the case. He was arrested in Oroville, Calif. in December 2019. His trial got underway in February 2025.
A first-degree murder conviction comes with an automatic life sentence with no parole eligibility for 25 years.
B.C. Prosecution Service spokesperson Damienne Darby said the judicial stay application was filed on Oct. 23.
If successful, “the prosecution would be ended and the sentencing hearing would not proceed,” Darby confirmed.