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Dennis Oland defence abruptly withdraws cellphone witness at murder retrial
Oland lawyer accuses Crown of trying to ambush defence with unknown line of questioning
Mar 05, 2019
"Dennis Oland's defence team began presenting its case at his murder retrial Tuesday, but abruptly withdrew one of its witnesses before he provided any evidence, accusing the Crown of trying to ambush the defence.
Lead defence lawyer Alan Gold had planned to have Gregory Baumeister, a core network specialist with the telecommunications company Ericsson, testify about attempts by Saint John police and Rogers Communications to locate Richard Oland's missing cellphone.
The retrial has heard efforts to "ping" the phone came back with a "roaming error" message.
What that means or how it's significant to the defence has not yet been revealed, but Gold has said the defence misunderstood some of the cellphone-related evidence at Dennis Oland's first trial in the 2011 bludgeoning death of his father....
During Oland's first trial, the Crown and defence submitted an agreed statement that roaming error could mean one of three things:
-The phone is registered on a foreign network with which Rogers doesn't have a roaming agreement.
-Rogers can't locate the phone because records of its location have been purged after a period of inactivity, with no calls, texts or data access.
- location of the phone can't be obtained for "some unspecified reason."
At that time, the Crown argued police asked Rogers to perform the so-called "forced registration" to try to obtain the GPS co-ordinates of the victim's missing iPhone on July 7, 2011, the day the victim's body was discovered. The defence said it was on July 9, 2011.
The parties have since reversed positions for reasons that have not yet been explained in court.
MLA is defence's 1st witness
Earlier Tuesday, the defence called Saint John Harbour Liberal MLA Gerry Lowe as its first witness...."
Dennis Oland defence abruptly withdraws cellphone witness at murder retrial | CBC News
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Oland lawyer accuses Crown of trying to ambush defence with unknown line of questioning
Mar 05, 2019
"Dennis Oland's defence team began presenting its case at his murder retrial Tuesday, but abruptly withdrew one of its witnesses before he provided any evidence, accusing the Crown of trying to ambush the defence.
Lead defence lawyer Alan Gold had planned to have Gregory Baumeister, a core network specialist with the telecommunications company Ericsson, testify about attempts by Saint John police and Rogers Communications to locate Richard Oland's missing cellphone.
The retrial has heard efforts to "ping" the phone came back with a "roaming error" message.
What that means or how it's significant to the defence has not yet been revealed, but Gold has said the defence misunderstood some of the cellphone-related evidence at Dennis Oland's first trial in the 2011 bludgeoning death of his father....
During Oland's first trial, the Crown and defence submitted an agreed statement that roaming error could mean one of three things:
-The phone is registered on a foreign network with which Rogers doesn't have a roaming agreement.
-Rogers can't locate the phone because records of its location have been purged after a period of inactivity, with no calls, texts or data access.
- location of the phone can't be obtained for "some unspecified reason."
At that time, the Crown argued police asked Rogers to perform the so-called "forced registration" to try to obtain the GPS co-ordinates of the victim's missing iPhone on July 7, 2011, the day the victim's body was discovered. The defence said it was on July 9, 2011.
The parties have since reversed positions for reasons that have not yet been explained in court.
MLA is defence's 1st witness
Earlier Tuesday, the defence called Saint John Harbour Liberal MLA Gerry Lowe as its first witness...."
Dennis Oland defence abruptly withdraws cellphone witness at murder retrial | CBC News
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