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A Superior Court judge expressed frustration Thursday after being informed that lawyers involved in the sentencing of six men who admitted to being part of a plot to kill a Mafioso were again not ready to proceed.

Jus‎tice André Vincent had been told at least twice this year that lawyers involved in the case would make joint recommendations on sentences for Vittorio Mirarchi, 39, Jack Simpson, 75, and four other men who were part of the plot to kill Salvatore Montagna, a Mafioso who was gunned down in Charlemagne, a town east of Montreal, on Nov. 24, 2011.

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Lawyers gathered for what was scheduled to be a sentence hearing at the Laval courthouse on Thursday, but after a long delay during which meetings were held outside the courtroom, Vincent was again asked to postpone the proceedings until next week.

Defence lawyer Dominique Shoofey advised the court that one of the accused has “a medical issue” that Shoofey wants to verify before the man is sentenced. During previous hearings in February and June, Shoofey requested postponements because two of the men — Calogero Milioto, 46, and Pietro Magistrale, 65 — wanted to have cases pending against them at the Joliette courthouse transferred to Laval. The other two men who await their sentences are Steven Fracas, 33, and Steven D’Addario, 39.