A man who admitted to killing his brother almost four years ago at a home near Oliver will be sentenced later this month.
Kyle Capone Patrick Louie, 26, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in connection with the February 2011 stabbing death of Reece Dillenger Louie at a home on Black Sage Road.
The younger brother, who was 20 at the time, later died in hospital.
During a teleconference Thursday in B.C. Supreme Court in Penticton, Crown counsellor John Swanson said the sentencing hearing on Jan. 21 will likely take just a single day and the only evidence entered will be in the form of documents prepared by expert witnesses.
Swanson said he and defence counsel have come up with a joint sentencing submission, but did not elaborate on what, if any, jail sentence he would be seeking.
Manslaughter, defined as killing a person without intent to do so, does not carry a mandatory minimum sentence in Canada. Louie has been in custody since his arrest just hours after the stabbing.
Although he was scheduled to be tried for second-degree murder in B.C. Supreme Court in Penticton in March 2014, the hearing was cancelled when Louie pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of manslaughter.