On March 18, Christian Shumkov submitted a request to the Ångermanland district court that he wanted to strengthen the defense with another lawyer and pointed out that the case is extensive and complex.
Prosecutor Christina Edlund Nilsson disagreed and said that the defense was updated about the suspicions against the suspected woman in batches several weeks before the charges were brought, and that the defense should have had time to read up on the case.
Mother in Ångermanland is suspected of having made her child sick Unusual request
The chairman, Anita Enocksson, tells SVT Västernorrland that she has never been part of it before.
– I have never tried a request for another defender before, she says.