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A woman found guilty of two thefts and threatening with a needle will have her day of reckoning at the Sudbury Courthouse on May 2, whether she is physically in court or not.

“There will be an order I’m not opposed to,” Shawana’s lawyer, Denis Michel, told Ontario Court Justice Karen Lische Wednesday concerning his client Naomi Shawana, who has refused to attend court on numerous occasions in recent months for her sentencing involving two armed robberies in January, 2016. “She will be brought (over) voluntarily or involuntarily. I will attend the jail to explain to her that if she will not attend, the court will proceed in her absence.”

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A visibly frustrated assistant Crown attorney Kenrick Abbott said Shawana cannot delay her sentencing any longer.

“This is the fifth or sixth time she has refused to leave her cell,” he told Lische.

The May 2 sentencing hearing is expected to take about one hour. The date was set in court Wednesday.