Welamukotuk chief denies bribery charge
Shelley Marie Sabattis, 56, to stand trial next year on allegation of trying to pay off witness
The chief of the Welamukotuk (Oromocto) First Nation will stand trial next year on a charge alleging she tried to pay a witness not to testify in a domestic-violence trial.
Defence lawyer Daniel Gallant appeared in Fredericton provincial court Friday on behalf of Chief Shelley Marie Sabattis, 56, of Wel-a-Mook Took Street.
Sabattis was scheduled to enter a plea to a charge of trying to dissuade Chanel Sabattis from testifying against Winton Labelle Walter Saulis, with the intent to obstruct, pervert or defeat the course of justice, between Nov. 23 and 29, 2023.
Sabattis wasn’t present when her case was called, but Gallant said he had instructions from his client on how to proceed.