The Canadian Press Lawyers for a Winnipeg man accused of killing four women are renewing calls for a judge to decide the case rather than a jury. They say two years of publicity surrounding the high-profile case of Jeremy Skibicki may sway the jury panel that was picked last week. Skibicki has pleaded not guilty to four counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran, Rebecca Contois and an unidentified woman Indigenous leaders have named Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe or Buffalo Woman. Skibicki, dressed in a T-shirt, baggy pants and leg shackles, sat in court Monday as his lawyers argued the six-week-long trial should be heard in front of a judge alone. It was the second time in six months they made the argument that Skibicki should have…
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