Defendant decries remand due to pending surgery
John Patrick Doyon, 39, rants during telephone court appearance, protesting detention due to hip-replacement procedure he says is scheduled for following morning
A man accused of assaulting a woman in Fredericton twice and threatening her screamed and ranted during a court appearance Wednesday, insisting he be released so he can get surgery.
John Patrick Doyon, 39, of no fixed address, appeared in Fredericton provincial court by telephone from the city police station cellblock Wednesday morning.
He was charged with assaulting Carol Stymiest and threatening her June 20, and assaulting her again Aug. 9 and thereby breaching an undertaking to have no contact with her.
When the court called the station and requested to speak with the defendant, he could be heard screaming at the top of his lungs in the background.
Judge Anne Dugas-Horsman identified herself, noting it was the court calling, and asked if she was speaking with Doyon.
“Who is this? What’s your name?” he said.
The judge identified herself again and advised Doyon he’d been charged with four counts. She asked him if he wanted the charges read to him.
“No, I don’t, and I don’t want to talk about them,” the defendant answered.
“I never touched her. She hit me.”
Dugas-Horsman nevertheless read all four charges onto the record.
Doyon insisted on being released from custody, stating he was scheduled for surgery at 6 a.m. Thursday.
“It’s a whole hip replacement,” he said.
But prosecutor Rodney Jordan objected to Doyon’s release, and Dugas-Horsman told the defendant she had no choice but to hold him pending a bail hearing.
“That’s a surgical appointment that has to be made,” Doyon said.
The judge remanded him until his bail hearing, which she scheduled for Thursday afternoon.
Don MacPherson can be contacted at ftonindependent@gmail.com.
They won't even DO total hip replacements on 39-year-olds. LOL