Dennis Oland’s lawyers ask Supreme Court of Canada for murder acquittal

“Significantly, Mr. Shaw had a reference point for the noises: the time a young man came into the (printing) business to send a fax, memorialized by a computerized timestamp of 8:11 p.m.”

Another issued raised by his lawyers was whether police were authorized to forensically test Dennis Oland’s brown sports jacket, where three small specks of his father’s DNA were found.

“(The defence) submits that this issue merits this (court’s) consideration in light of the continuing post-seizure privacy interests that are increasingly recognized in the case law and the intrusiveness of post-seizure forensic searches now available due to advances in forensic technology,” it said.

Other issues include whether the Crown should have cross-examined Oland about his alleged motive, how the courts should have dealt with “after-the-fact conduct” — including his statement to police about which jacket he was wearing on the day in question — and the reliability of computer-generated evidence.

Well-known businessman Richard Oland was bludgeoned to death in his office in July 2011.

Dennis Oland was convicted of second-degree murder in 2015 and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 10 years.

He appealed in January of last year and sought release, but the bail request was turned down — a decision that was later affirmed by the New Brunswick Court of Appeal.

Dennis Oland was subsequently granted release by the same court last October, when a new trial was ordered after he had spent almost a year in prison.

The Canadian Press

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Dennis Oland’s lawyers ask Supreme Court of Canada for murder acquittal

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