Law360 Canada ( December 3, 2021, 5:53 AM EST) -- Appeal by Teng from her 2017 conviction, by a jury, of first-degree murder, and the non-contact order imposed as part of her sentence. In 2012, after reporting the discovery of her husband’s body, the appellant told the police who attended the couple’s apartment that the husband died of a heart attack. A post-mortem determined the husband was strangled to death. Green twine, like that wrapped around the husband’s neck, was found in the couple’s apartment. The appellant took out two life insurance policies on her husband in the months prior to his death. The appellant changed counsel several times during the proceedings. During jury selection, the appellant made a Rowbotham application seeking to stay the trial until the Attorney General agreed to fund counsel for her. The trial judge dismissed the motion and the trial proceeded with the appellant unrepresented by counsel, although a lawyer acted as amicus throughout. The time between the appellant’s arrest and the completion of trial was 57 months. The appellant’s sentence prohibited her from communicating with her brother-in-law, who had custody of the appellant’s daughter....