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Yarmey will appear in an Edmonton court on Thursday.In March, Bobby Weasel Head, a member of the Blood Tribe in Alberta, was charged with manslaughter after he allegedly sold fentanyl to a couple who later died of an overdose last year, leaving four children behind. That charge was believed to be the first of its kind involving fentanyl.Overall, though, it's rare for manslaughter charges to be laid against drug dealers."If you can prove that they knew they were trafficking fentanyl, and if a reasonable person at that time would know that fentanyl is likely to … cause bodily harm, I think you can convict them of manslaughter," Peter Sankoff, a law professor at the University of Alberta, told the Calgary Herald earlier this year in response to Head's case.In 1993, the Supreme Court of Canada upheld the manslaughter conviction of a man who injected a lethal dose of cocaine into a woman's arm with her consent.Edmonton Police lay first manslaughter charge in relation to fentanyl overdose death: The Edmonton Police Service… — Edmonton Police (@edmontonpolice)October 26, 2016
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