A murder charge will proceed in the Nova Scotia courts against a man who's been found not criminally responsible for previous acts of violence. 

Mohamed Issak, 32, was charged with second-degree murder in December.

The charge stems from an assault at the East Coast Forensic Hospital, Nova Scotia's only secure psychiatric facility, last May.

Both Issak and the victim of the assault, Allen Nickerson, were patients at the hospital. Nickerson had been admitted after being found not criminally responsi…