New Brunswick court expected to set date for new Oland murder trial

SAINT JOHN, N.B. – Lawyers for Dennis Oland are to appear in a New Brunswick court today for a hearing to set a date for a new second-degree murder trial.
The date was supposed to be set last month, but Oland’s lawyers and the Crown said there were matters they needed to iron out.
Oland is charged in the 2011 bludgeoning death of his multimillionaire father, Richard Oland.
He was convicted in 2015, but was released on bail last October when the provincial appeal court ordered a new trial, citing an error in the judge’s instructions to the jury.
In July, the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed an application by the Crown to restore the conviction, and a cross-appeal seeking an acquittal.
Judge Terrence Morrison of Fredericton is expected to hear the retrial sometime in 2018.