Dennis Oland murder retrial
The Dennis Oland murder retrial resumes today.
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Dennis #Oland retrial is underway. Crown prosecutor Jill Knee advises the court schedule has changed. Next planned witness is Anthony Shaw, but defence lawyer Alan Gold is going to cross-examine him and Gold isn't available this morning (travel-related)by Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon via twitter 1/30/2019 1:39:23 PM -
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Knee suggests playing the video of forensic video analyst Grant Fredericks' testimony at Oland's 1st trial in 2015 insteadby Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon via twitter 1/30/2019 1:40:09 PM
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Shaw is an important witness to the defence. He was working downstairs from Richard Oland's Canterbury St. office on July 6, 2011, the night police believe he was killed, and has testified he heard thumping noises coming from the office around 7:30 p.m.by Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon via twitter 1/30/2019 1:42:01 PM
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Shaw was one of two men working in the building where Richard Oland was killed on the evening he was killed. He and John Ainsworth both heard thumping noises coming through the ceiling that each later felt was the murder in progress.by Robert Jones via twitter 1/30/2019 1:44:14 PM
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The trial has heard Dennis Oland left his father's office around 6:30 p.m. and was captured on timestamped security video around 7:30 p.m, shopping with his wife in Rothesay - about a 15 min drive from Saint Johnby Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon via twitter 1/30/2019 1:45:55 PM
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Shaw was sure the time of the noises was between 7:30 and 7:45 long after Dennis Oland had left the building at 6:30. Ainsworth could only say the noises were sometime after 6:00.by Robert Jones via twitter 1/30/2019 1:47:06 PM
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That testimony is being delayed until Alan Gold returns. In the meantime court is hearing more testimony from the first trial being rebroadcast on courtroom monitors.by Robert Jones via twitter 1/30/2019 1:48:42 PM
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John Ainsworth, who was with Shaw at Printing Plus that night, testified at the first trial that the noises were sometime between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.by Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon via twitter 1/30/2019 1:49:22 PM
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Video of Grant Fredericks' 2015 testimony is being played on monitors in the courtroom now. Judge declares him an expert qualified to give opinion evidence in forensic video analysisby Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon via twitter 1/30/2019 1:53:26 PM
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Grant Fredericks - a US forensic video analyst - is testifying about the clothes Dennis Oland was wearing hours before the murder as seen on security camera footage in the hallway between Brunswick Square and the Brunswick House office building. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyKfNy_VsAAHS0V.jpg
by Robert Jones via twitter 1/30/2019 1:54:25 PM -
Fredericks says videos are commonly compressed to save computer space. Causes loss of data. He uses special tools to be able to examine the data in its original form.by Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon via twitter 1/30/2019 1:54:58 PM
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Police wanted to know if Fredericks could confirm that the jacket and shirt Oland was wearing hours before the murder were the same ones police later seized at Oland’s home with reddish stains on them.by Robert Jones via twitter 1/30/2019 1:55:58 PM
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Crown prosecutor Patrick Wilbur handled questioning Fredericks at Oland's first trial. Wilbur is not part of the 3-prosecutor team handling the retrial.by Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon via twitter 1/30/2019 1:56:52 PM
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Stains on the jacket - which had been dry cleaned - were later confirmed to be blood with Richard Oland’s DNA found inside of the stains. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyKf-EfV4AA29Rw.jpg
by Robert Jones via twitter 1/30/2019 1:57:40 PM -
Reddish stains on the shirt - which had been laundered before police seized it - were too degraded to be identified as blood or anything else. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyKggJeUUAEGI6K.jpg
by Robert Jones via twitter 1/30/2019 2:00:02 PM -
Fredericks says Saint John police contacted him on March 15, 2012. Asked to examine video images (of Oland), examine some photos of "known" clothing (seized from Oland's home) and provide a photographic video comparison of the clothingby Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon via twitter 1/30/2019 2:00:13 PM
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Dennis Oland ultimately acknowledged in his own testimony during the first trial that both pieces of clothing were the ones he was wearing the day of the murder.by Robert Jones via twitter 1/30/2019 2:02:20 PM
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Oland's brown sports jacket was among the items. Oland told police he was wearing a navy blazer when he visited his father on July 6/11 when he was the last known person to see him alive, but security video&witness testimony showed he was wearing a brown sports jacket that day. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyKgy5UUYAYJ5RM.jpg
by Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon via twitter 1/30/2019 2:04:55 PM -
The Crown has said the jacket had 4 areas of blood on it and DNA matching his father's profile. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyKhproU8AEkcU3.jpg
by Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon via twitter 1/30/2019 2:06:26 PM -
Fredericks, however, said the quality of the video he had to work with was not good enough for him to positively say the clothes were the same although he was able to point to numerous similarities in style, cut etc. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyKiUyjUUAUtY63.jpg
by Robert Jones via twitter 1/30/2019 2:07:54 PM -
A blue&white checkered J. Crew dress shirt police believe Oland was wearing that night was another item. Court has heard police found 4 faint red stains on the front, a faded brown one on the lower left sleeve & a faded brown one on the inside of the right cuff. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyKiB-SVAAAIlWi.jpg
by Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon via twitter 1/30/2019 2:09:29 PM -
Shirt had been laundered. RCMP forensic lab detected no human blood or DNA, retrial has heardby Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon via twitter 1/30/2019 2:10:54 PM
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Another item was a pair of blue-grey J. Crew shorts police believed Oland wore in security video at the Irving convenience store in Rothesay at 10:32 p.m. on July 6/11.by Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon via twitter 1/30/2019 2:20:48 PM
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These are the shorts Fredericks examined. (Court exhibit) He says he looks for cut, design, colour, sometimes size, and any unique features, such as damage, when conducting comparisons https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyKnVGyXcAAE4jM.jpg">https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyKnVGsXgAA8ykv.jpg
by Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon via twitter 1/30/2019 2:32:55 PM -
These are the shorts Fredericks examined. (Court exhibit) He says he looks for cut, design, colour, sometimes size, and any unique features, such as damage, when conducting comparisons https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyKnVGyXcAAE4jM.jpg">https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyKnVGsXgAA8ykv.jpg
by Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon via twitter 1/30/2019 2:33:02 PM -
Oland retrial has been on a short recess to give the Crown time to deal with some technical issues. They've now got Fredericks' video testimony playing on left side of monitors in the courtroom and digital copy of his report, including videos and images, on the rightby Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon via twitter 1/30/2019 2:37:50 PM
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Fredericks did his best to match the jacket on the video with the blood stained jacket seized at Oland’s home. Same colour, lapel notches, breast pocket, same number of buttons on the front and sleeve.by Robert Jones via twitter 1/30/2019 2:44:29 PM
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“There are no features that distinguish the jackets one from the other,” Fredericks testified at the time. Again though the testimony was made irrelevant later when Dennis Oland acknowledged the jackets were the same.by Robert Jones via twitter 1/30/2019 2:47:15 PM
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Fredericks found the brown jacket Oland is wearing in the video and the jacket seized from his bedroom closet shared the same "class." No features that distinguish one from the other. Might be the same, might not be, he says.by Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon via twitter 1/30/2019 2:50:24 PM
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Results of Fredericks' examination of the checkered shirt was also inconclusive. Shirt in video and seized shirt have same class features, small squares in the design, he says. 'Questioned' shirt (in video) cannot be eliminated as being the same as 'known' (seized) shirtby Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon via twitter 1/30/2019 2:55:15 PM
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Same with the shorts. Fredericks found they were of the same class, but noting unique to say they are exactly the same object. Sometimes creases can be a tell-tale, but not enough resolution in the video, he saysby Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon via twitter 1/30/2019 2:59:49 PM
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I've done a couple of screen grabs from Fredericks' report (court exhibit) to help give you a sense of what the courtroom is seeing on the monitor at the Dennis #Oland murder retrial https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyKwoubVAAEp9Pp.jpg">https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyKwhllVsAIGTOC.jpg
by Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon via twitter 1/30/2019 3:13:08 PM -
I've done a couple of screen grabs from Fredericks' report (court exhibit) to help give you a sense of what the courtroom is seeing on the monitor at the Dennis #Oland murder retrial https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyKwoubVAAEp9Pp.jpg">https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyKwhllVsAIGTOC.jpg
by Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon via twitter 1/30/2019 3:13:10 PM -
Crown has finished questioning forensic video analyst Grant Fredericks. Oland's former defence lawyer Gary Miller handled cross-examination. Miller stepped down from the case shortly before the retrial began. He said he felt it would be beneficial to have a fresh set of eyesby Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon via twitter 1/30/2019 3:27:17 PM
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Miller reviews Fredericks' conclusions. Reads them aloud from his report: "After carefully examining the Known (seized) jacket with the Questioned jacket worn by Male #1 (Oland in video), I have formed the opinion that the Known and Questioned jackets are of the same class..."by Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon via twitter 1/30/2019 3:31:02 PM
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"The Questioned jacket is indistinguishable from the Known jacket. Since no unique characteristics are visible in the video that could uniquely identify the Questioned jacket, it is not possible to state that it is the
same jacket..."by Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon via twitter 1/30/2019 3:32:16 PM -
"However, the Known jacket cannot be eliminated as being the Questioned jacket." Same opinion re. shirt and re. shorts.by Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon via twitter 1/30/2019 3:33:16 PM
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Video still of Dennis Oland wearing the shorts in question at Irving convenience store on evening of July 6, 2011 (court exhibit) https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyK22IkU0AEMaqi.jpg
by Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon via twitter 1/30/2019 3:38:55 PM -
Fredericks had noted the top button on Oland's seized jacket was broken, almost in half. Button on jacket in video appears smaller but can't say it's broken due to low resolution, only that it's refracting less light. That could be due to size, or position, he tells Millerby Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon via twitter 1/30/2019 3:43:32 PM
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