B.C. court rejects Robert Pickton’s appeal
Vancouver–One of the costliest and lengthiest murder trials in B.C. history involving convicted serial killer Robert Pickton will not be reopened after the province’s highest courts this morning found there was not enough evidence to order a new trial.
Pickton, the Port Coquitlam pig farmer who was convicted in December 2007 on six counts of second degree murder, is serving a minimum of 25 years in prison before parole.
He had originally been charged with 26 counts of first-degree murder but 20 of those counts were severed and Pickton went on trial before a judge and jury on the deaths of Sereena Abotsway, Mona Wilson, Andrea Joesbury, Brenda Wolfe, Georgina Papin and Marnie Frey.
Pickton’s victims were women with drug addictions working in the sex trade in the Downtown Eastside when they disappeared over a period of five years.
The Court of Appeal in B.C. heard two connected appeals related to the year long trial which began January 2007 and concluded with a conviction after a 10 day jury deliberation in December of that year.
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mike Says:
There must be some serious type of mental and emotional disconnect for a lawyer to be able to stand up and argue on behalf of clients like Robert Pickton.
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Posted on June 25th, 2009 at 8:38 pm