Extensive psychiatric evaluation completed, but not yet public
Stephen Hopkins in Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court in St. John's on Tuesday, June 7, prior to taking the witness stand at his trial. - Tara BradburyST. JOHN'S, N.L. — As his lawyer attempted to convince him to stop speaking, sexual offender Stephen Hopkins told the court Wednesday morning he doesn’t want to contest an application by the Crown to have him declared a dangerous offender.
Hopkins’ court appearance was scheduled so the Crown could give an update on its application, which was dependent on the results of an extensive psychiatric evaluation Hopkins underwent over the past three months. The Stephen Hopkins' court-appointed Amicus curaie John Brooks and prosecutor Jennifer Standen during a break in proceedings on Day 2 of the trial of Stephen Hopkins in Newfoundand and Labrador Supreme Court in St. John's in May 2022. - Tara Bradbury
Burrage found Hopkins guilty in June of breaking into a St. John’s home two years ago and forcibly confining, threatening and sexually assaulting a then-17-year-old girl who lived there. At the time, Hopkins was already a registered sex offender. He was released from prison just weeks before the incident after serving a sentence for a previous sexually-based crime.
In her application, Standen submitted Hopkins has demonstrated a pattern of failing to restrain his behaviour and a likelihood of causing “injury, pain or other evil” to others by “a failure in the future to control his sexual impulses.”
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