' Dennis Oland has been granted bail, a day after New Brunswick’s Court of Appeal quashed his murder conviction. Justice Marc Richard said Tuesday Oland has regained the presumption
of innocence, and that he’s no threat to the public or a flight risk. The judge said the public’s faith in the justice system would be
shaken more by Oland’s continued detention than by an order granting him
bail. “Any reasonable member of the public would understand that Mr. Oland
has reacquired the presumption of innocence as a result of the decision
of this court yesterday,” Richard said. The appeal court ordered a new trial Monday, 10 months after a jury
convicted him of second-degree murder in the bludgeoning death of his
multimillionaire father, Richard. The appeal court found that the trial judge did not properly instruct
the jury on evidence around the jacket Dennis Oland was wearing the day
of the murder. Oland, a financial planner and scion of one of the Maritimes’ most
prominent families, told police he was wearing a navy blazer, but later
admitted he was wearing a brown Hugo Boss jacket. The Crown portrayed the statement as an intentional lie, while the defence said it was an honest mistake. The brown jacket was later found to have minuscule blood stains and DNA matching the profile of Oland’s 69-year-old father."
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