Decision in appeal of Dennis Oland’s murder conviction expected Monday
FREDERICTON — Dennis Oland is expected to learn Monday if he’ll continue to serve a life sentence for the murder of his father, win acquittal, or be ordered to stand trial all over again.
Defence and Crown lawyers finished presenting arguments before three justices of New Brunswick’s Court of Appeal Thursday on whether the guilty verdict delivered by a jury in December should stand or be overturned.
Oland’s lawyers argued that the verdict was unreasonable, that the trial judge made errors in his instructions to the jury, and by allowing the introduction of some pieces of evidence such as Oland’s brown sports jacket.
Much of the three-day hearing focused on Dennis Oland’s incorrect statement that he was wearing a navy blazer on the evening his father was murdered.