Family seeks legal counsel for inquiry

Family seeks legal counsel for inquiry | Local News | St. Albert Gazette

he fatality inquiry reviewing the death of 13-year-old Samantha Martin was delayed again Friday when the biological family asked for an adjournment to obtain legal counsel.

The court was scheduled to hear from the last three witnesses, but Velvet Martin, the girl’s biological mother, asked for an adjournment so a lawyer could represent her daughter.

Samantha died in December 2006 after collapsing from a heart attack. The inquiry is supposed to determine what caused the girl’s cardiac arrest.