A woman who owns a dry cleaning business in Rothesay testifying at Dennis Oland’s second-degree murder trial.
A receipt from VIP Dry Cleaners with Lisa Oland’s name on it shows that one pair of pants, two sports jackets and 16 shirts were dropped off at the dry cleaning business on July 8, 2011 – one day after Richard Oland’s body was found. The trial has heard that Dennis Oland became a suspect in his father’s death on July 7, 2011.The prosecution says a brown jacket seized from Dennis’ home had four areas of blood on it and the DNA profile matched that of Richard Oland. A drycleaning tag was still attached to that jacket and the tag matches the tag on the store copy of the receipt, according to owner Jin Hee Choi.
Jin Hee Choi says the normal turnaround for an order was two business days however it was natural for someone to ask for an order the next day. The receipt lists Monday as the ready date for the order however that is scratched out and Saturday is hand-written beside that. Choi agreeing with defence lawyer Alan Gold that when Lisa Oland brought in the clothes on July 8 she could have asked for same day service.
Choi agreeing that they have a special treatment for blood stains. Gold asking her if she knows the thing with blood, is that you need an enzyme to break down the protein in the blood to get rid of the stain with Choi saying yes. Gold then saying that once you heat blood, it stays forever.
This on day 31 of the trial. 65 days have been set aside at the Saint John Law Courts. The trial resumes on Thursday at 9:30am. CHSJ News reporter Laura Lyall is covering the trial and is live-tweeting the proceedings from the courtroom. You can follow along by going to the CHSJ News Twitter page or the Wave News Twitter page.
