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Council retroactively slashed $1.33 million in rent owed by the Roughriders.
The man accused of stealing a ramshackle old house last summer has pleaded not guilty to a charge of theft under $5,000.
A trial date for Michael Raymond Malley has been set for July 27 in Melfort. His lawyer, speaking by phone, told Melfort Provincial Court he expects three witnesses to testify for the defence.
Crown prosecutor Wade Rogers said the Crown expects to call three witnesses as well.
Malley, who is now 33, was charged by the RCMP after the house — which was mounted on a trailer — went missing from the Crooked River area in June. Court documents refer to it as a shed.
The RCMP said the house disappeared somewhere between midnight and noon on June 14. The house was found in a rural area near Nipawin in July.
Malley, who is from Codette, also faces a charge of uttering a threat and assault with a weapon. The RCMP says those charges were laid after a dispute with the owner of the house the day after it disappeared. A court document says the weapon involved in the assault was the door of a semi-truck.
His lawyer said Malley is pleading not guilty to those charges as well, and a separate trial date of Nov. 2 was set. Court was told the Crown expects to call three or four witnesses in that case.
Two other trial dates were set for matters not related to the theft of the house, and several other outstanding charges were scheduled to be back in court on April 3.