Murder-Conspiracy Trial Tied to Coutts, Alta., COVID-19 Blockade Set to Go to Jury

Anti-mandate demonstrators gather as a truck convoy blocks the highway at the U.S. border crossing in Coutts, Alta., on Feb. 1, 2022. The Canadian Press/Jeff McIntosh

A jury is set to begin deliberating today the fate of two men accused of conspiring to kill police at the Coutts, Alta., blockade in 2022.

The panel has been hearing testimony for seven weeks in Court of King’s Bench in the case of Anthony Olienick and Chris Carbert.