New Brunswick Crown Will Not Appeal Acquittal in Oland Murder Trial

Dennis Oland and family members head from the Law Courts in Saint John, N.B., after he was found not guilty of murdering his father on Friday, July 19, 2019. Justice Terrence Morrison of the New Brunswick Court of Queen’s Bench found Oland not guilty of second degree murder. Richard Oland was beaten to death on July 6, 2011. Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press

FREDERICTON—New Brunswick’s Public Prosecution Services announced Tuesday it will not appeal last month’s acquittal of Dennis Oland on a charge of second-degree murder in the 2011 bludgeoning death of his multi-millionaire father, Richard.

Oland, 51, was charged with the killing in 2013 and spent close to a year in prison after being convicted by a jury in 2015. That verdict was overturned on appeal in 2016 and the new trial ordered—this time before judge alone.