A bloodstain pattern expert with the RCMP testifying under cross-examination from the defence that he can’t say how long the stains found on the brown jacket seized from Dennis Oland’s home on July 14, 2011 were on there, or, how they would have gotten there in the first place.
Alan Gold asking Sergeant Brian Wentzell that he can’t suggest that these stains resulted from beating Richard Oland to death and getting spatter on jacket with Wenzell replying that no, he can’t. Gold saying for all we know those stains had been there a long time with Wentzell saying they could be, yes.
Crown prosecutor PJ Veniot has stated that four areas of blood were found on that brown jacket and the DNA profile matched that of Richard Oland. The body of Richard Oland was found face down in a pool of blood in his investment firm in uptown Saint John on July 7, 2011.
Gold saying that when it comes to stains on the jacket we’re not talking stains that were the size of the spatter near the body of Richard Oland with Wentzell replying the largest stains were probably 3 millimetres in size.
Sergeant Wentzell saying that he was not aware that the brown jacket had been crumpled up and put into a bag when it was seized by police. On that issue, Gold asking Wentzell that you can’t say there’s no risk there with Wentzell replying, “no I can’t, the potential is there.”
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