5-year-old, grandparents disappear from SW home

[Kritafo]

horrific case..

What we didn't hear and he was also a person of interest in another murder

http://globalnews.ca/news/3252637/do...?sf56509295=1r

[HiTempguy1]

So... why did he do it? Was that ever found out? Or just batshit crazy?? (in which case, how come NCR wasn't a thing)?

Edit-

Wow, the national post is apparently reading my mind

http://news.nationalpost.com/full-co...-in-your-midst

[spikerS]

Originally posted by Kritafo
horrific case..

What we didn't hear and he was also a person of interest in another murder

http://globalnews.ca/news/3252637/do...?sf56509295=1r

If they tried to introduce that in this case, the defense would have a field day with it because it isn't fact, nor has he been charged, but could sway a jury.

If he was charged, or found guilty, it's a different matter all together, but until that point....

[mazdavirgin]

He didn’t touch anything, he later testified, but the mere act of looking in the bag, as well as the actions of another officer who at about the same time seized Garland’s shoes before he’d been placed under arrest the first time, gave defence lawyers Kim Ross and Jim Lutz grounds to challenge the later, lawful search warrant for the farm.

The bag peek and shoe grab, the defence lawyers argued, breached Garland’s Charter rights against unreasonable search and seizure. Had they succeeded, much of the wealth of evidence — DNA from blood and burned flesh that put the Likneses and Nathan indisputably at the farm and in such unlikely places as a meat cutter and meat hooks – would have been ruled inadmissible. Burned bone fragments found at the acreage, north of Calgary, where Douglas Garland lived with his parents.

Judge Gates found those two pieces of evidence were indeed illegally obtained, but that under Section 24.2 of the Charter, their admission wouldn’t bring the administration of justice into disrepute.

That was Doug Garland’s best, arguably his only, defence.

Turns out, on the tongue of one of those shoes taken from Garland on July 4 was Alvin Liknes’ DNA.

Man they must be angling for the mistrial/appeal route.

[FraserB]

Originally posted by mazdavirgin


Man they must be angling for the mistrial/appeal route.

The problem is that even if another trial is ordered, all the evidence obtained from what looks like an illegal search has been plastered across the media. They'd never find people to sit on a jury who would disregard it. A lot of the Crown's sensational evidence would have never been admitted had the search been tossed.

Also, unrelated, did they ever introduce the DNA or other forensic evidence that placed Garland inside the Liknes home?

[Majestic12]

Originally posted by FraserB


Also, unrelated, did they ever introduce the DNA or other forensic evidence that placed Garland inside the Liknes home?

Nope. His counsel hammered that point home in his closing submissions.

[vw_rabbit2.5]

https://twitter.com/NancyHixt/status/832327672063668224
jurors have reached a verdict after not deliberating for very long (5-9pm yesterday, 9am until now today.... stay tuned

[rx7_turbo2]

Guilty.

[vw_rabbit2.5]

guilty on all 3 counts of first degree murder.

let the fucker rot in jail.

[01RedDX]

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[Brent.ff]

Originally posted by 01RedDX


CPS did some exemplary work on this case.

Suspect there may be a bit of a training lesson here, with the opening of a bag when in there looking for a person. Could have cost them the case had it been tossed..

[OTown]

Awesome work by CPS and prosecution. Sounded like a tough file both by emotion and evidence.

The sad part is that jail is too good for this guy.

[RickDaTuner]

75 years better be the sentencing. Even though he wont make it to its full term, it still seems far to small of a punishment for taking 3 lives.

[Xtrema]

Thank god for the accidental aerial survey photographs.

Originally posted by RickDaTuner
75 years better be the sentencing. Even though he wont make it to its full term, it still seems far to small of a punishment for taking 3 lives.

57+25 = 82 before parole.

[Kijho]

Thank God

[OTown]

From CBC:

Jury coming back in to make recommendation on parole ineligibility (consecutive vs concurrent):

10 jurors recommend Garland should serve his parole ineligibility consecutively, 2 have no opinion.

Consecutive would mean 75 years w/o parole.

Lets hope the judge agrees. Sentencing scheduled for tomorrow.

[Xtrema]

Originally posted by OTown
From CBC:


Consecutive would mean 75 years w/o parole.

Lets hope the judge agrees. Sentencing scheduled for tomorrow.

Awesome. Still I hope some inmate justice to save us some $.

[OTown]

The never-before-heard details of the Douglas Garland investigation from lead detective

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...reit-1.3982966

Really interesting read.

[D'z Nutz]

Originally posted by Xtrema
Thank god for the accidental aerial survey photographs.

No doubt the aerial photos helped, but had they not come across them wasn't there enough DNA evidence to reach the same verdict anyways?

[Nismorphed]

What was the aerial photos? Was there photos of the bodies? You