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FREDERICTON — The Crown is expected to wrap up its case today in the appeal hearing of Dennis Oland’s second-degree murder conviction.
Much of the debate so far has focused on what Oland was wearing the night his father, well-known businessman Richard Oland, was killed in his New Brunswick office in 2011.
Justices in the Court of Appeal in Fredericton questioned Crown prosecutors Wednesday about Oland’s statement to police that he was wearing a navy jacket when he visited his father when he in fact had on a brown jacket.
The garment was later found to have a number of minuscule blood stains and DNA that matched the profile of Richard Oland, a wealthy and well-known businessman who was bludgeoned to death in Saint John in July 2011.
The Crown has portrayed Dennis Oland’s statement about the jacket as an intentional lie meant to mislead police, but his lawyers are arguing it was an honest mistake.
They want his conviction overturned or a new trial ordered.
