An Ottawa youth is inviting a judge to find him guilty of terrorism charges stemming from an alleged plan to attack Jewish people.
The development came in an Ontario court Wednesday before a trial for the young person and a co-accused was set to begin.
The youth, who cannot be identified due to his age, pleaded not guilty to four charges, but he admits to a statement of facts and invites the court to find him guilty.
The unusual move preserves his appeal rights concerning the pretrial exclusion of certain evidence in the case.
The four charges are:
—conspiracy to commit murder for the benefit of, at the direction of or in association with a terrorist group;…