A high-profile Halifax-area murder trial will not proceed as scheduled after lawyers for Adam Drake told a justice of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court on Thursday that they cannot be ready in time.

Drake, 33, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of battle-rapper Pat Stay in September 2022. Stay was stabbed outside a downtown Halifax bar and died later in hospital. Drake was arrested a few days later.

His jury trial had been slated to begin on Monday. But on Sept. 6, the Nova Scotia gover…