Alberta’s top court reserves decision on appeal of triple murderer
CALGARY — A lawyer for a man found guilty of killing a couple and their grandson has argued that a judge should never have allowed evidence taken from her client’s farm because police shouldn’t have been there in the first place.
Douglas Garland is appealing convictions of first-degree murder in the deaths of Alvin and Kathy Liknes and five-year-old Nathan O’Brien five years ago.
Garland, 59, is serving a life sentence with no chance of parole for 75 years.
He watched proceedings closely in Alberta’s Appeal Court in Calgary on Thursday, but never looked at three rows of the victims’ friends and relatives sitting quietly in the courtroom.