Jury deliberations in Coutts blockade murder-conspiracy trial enter 3rd day

The assemblage astatine nan murder-conspiracy proceedings for 2 men charged aft nan 2022 blockade successful Coutts, Alta., will statesman deliberations for a 3rd day.

The five-man, seven-woman assemblage was handed nan lawsuit precocious Wednesday day aft a five-hour instruction from Alberta Court of King’s Bench Justice David Labrenz.

There was nary verdict reached aft a afloat time of discussions Thursday into nan guilt aliases innocence of nan 2 men.

Anthony Olienick and Chris Carbert look nan conspiracy to perpetrate execution complaint arsenic good arsenic mischief complete $5,000 and possession of a limb for a vulnerable purpose, while Olienick faces a further complaint of possessing a tube bomb.

The 2 men were arrested aft constabulary seized a stockpile of guns, ammunition and assemblage armour successful an early greeting ambush successful February 2022.

The Crown says nan 2 men were readying to usage Coutts arsenic a motorboat pad to commencement a gyration and were prepared to usage unit against nan RCMP if rule enforcement sought to unopen down nan protest.

The blockade tied up postulation for 2 weeks astatine nan engaged Alberta-U. S. separator crossing to protestation COVID-19 rules and vaccine mandates.

The judge has instructed nan jurors that to convict either man of conspiracy to perpetrate execution they must first beryllium convinced if an existent conspiracy took spot wherever 2 aliases much group planned to perpetrate a crime.

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He said nan adjacent measurement would beryllium to determine if Olienick and Carbert were portion of it.

The proceedings is successful its eighth week.

It was primitively expected to beryllium completed by nan extremity of June.

There was a azygous mobility from nan assemblage Thursday wherever they asked if Olienick had to retrieve having nan explosive to beryllium recovered blameworthy of that complaint aliases whether nan elemental truth he had nan explosive connected his spot was capable to convict.

The judge replied that representation doesn’t matter if he was still successful possession of nan tube bomb.