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Luka Rocco Magnotta pleaded not guilty to five charges, including first-degree murder, during a Tuesday afternoon court appearance via video link.

Magnotta’s lawyer, Pierre Panaccio, may ask for a psychiatric evaluation to be performed on his client. That motion would be discussed in Magnotta’s next court appearance, also via video link, on Thursday.

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The court appearance before Justice Lori-Renee Weitzman lasted a mere three minutes.

Magnotta, 29, appeared in a brown shirt in the video link from a Montreal police station. He is expected to be transferred to a detention centre in the near future.

He said one word during the entire appearance — “OK” — in response to Panaccio asking Magnotta to call him this evening.

For very extraordinary cases, we do have to take some extraordinary measures

Magnotta has been charged with the first-degree murder of Jun Lin, 33, committing an indignity to a dead body, mailing obscene materials, publishing obscene materials and threatening Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other members of parliament.