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William Sandeson has been begin accusable of first-degree murder.
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Taylor Flooring - all-laminate-flooring | Taylor Flooring Halifax HoursThe jury, which deliberated for about 22 hours, alternate its adjudication at apex on Sunday.
Sandeson, 24, was on balloon for first-degree annihilation in the afterlife of Taylor Samson, a adolescent Dalhousie University student. Samson went missing on Aug. 15, 2015. His anatomy has never been found.
First-degree annihilation carries an automated activity book afterwards accommodation for acquittal for 25 years. Since Sandeson has already served time in jail, his acquittal accommodation has been arrangement to about 23 years.
Formal sentencing is appointed for July 11, when Samson's ancestors will acquaint the cloister — and Sandeson — what accident Taylor agency to them.
Sandeson appeared apathetic aback the adjudication was apprehend in court.
As Sandeson was led out of the attorneys afterwards the jury's adjudication was announced, Samson's mom said to him, "Turn about and booty a bow, Billy."
Later, Linda Boutilier told reporters she feels Sandeson has been "arrogant" throughout the trial.
Taylor Samson's mother, Linda Boutilier, speaks with reporters afterwards a board convicts William Sandeson of first-degree murder. (Stephanie Clattenburg/CBC)
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Inspiration - Taylor Flooring - Nova Scotia | Taylor Flooring Halifax Hours"He doesn't affliction about his family, my family, Taylor," she said. "It's like, you're the one who capital this accomplished trial. You wouldn't booty a address bargain. So about-face around. Booty a bow."
Boutilier said she will now focus on analytic for her son's body.
"I appetite my son back," she said. "If [Sandeson] doesn't appetite to advice us, afresh accomplished — I'll acquisition him on my own. I'm not activity to stop. I'm not activity to stop attractive for Taylor. I'm bringing him home."
One of Samson's accompany from aerial school, Kaitlynne Lowe, abounding cloister and said she was "thrilled" with the verdict. She said Samson was a baton who pushed anybody to be the best they could be.
"He himself consistently capital to be the best actuality ever," Lowe said. "He capital to do aggregate for the bodies that he admired and he consistently gave aback to everyone."
The board began its deliberations on Thursday afternoon afterwards Nova Scotia Supreme Cloister Justice Josh Arnold spent 3½ hours instructing board members.
Defence advocate Eugene Tan told reporters afterwards the adjudication that the case was difficult. He would not say whether he will accomplish an appeal.
Tan said Sandeson told him to accumulate his "chin up."
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Taylor Flooring - all-laminate-flooring | Taylor Flooring Halifax HoursWilliam Sandeson's lawyer, Eugene Tan, discusses the case afterwards the adjudication was delivered. (Stephanie Clattenburg/CBC)
"We had a babble this morning and he is focused on affective forward," Tan said. "What he said to me is, 'Don't anguish about me. We'll accumulate affective forward.'"
Crown advocate Susan MacKay said afterwards a long balloon with a lot of evidence, she was admiring with the jury's verdict. MacKay credited the board who formed on the case for actuality able and well-organized, but additionally accepted the aggregation had some "lucky breaks."
During the trial, cloister heard that both Sandeson and Samson were complex in the biologic trade.
The case declared Sandeson was in money agitation and set up a biologic accord with Samson on Aug. 15, 2015. Aback Samson accustomed at Sandeson's Halifax apartment, the Crown says Sandeson attempt him to afterlife and took his nine kilograms of marijuana.
Taylor Samson, 22, was appear missing on Aug. 16, 2015. (Halifax Regional Police)
The defence argued during its closing arguments that Sandeson is not a bent administrator and apprenticed the board to acquisition him not guilty.
During cloister testimony, neighbours who lived beyond the anteroom from Sandeson testified that on Aug. 15, 2015, they heard a loud blast and saw a man with dark, coiled beard sitting at Sandeson's kitchen table, bleeding profusely. They additionally saw drugs and cash.
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Inspiration - Taylor Flooring - Nova Scotia | Taylor Flooring Halifax HoursThey left, and aback they alternate later, they saw blood-soaked band marks on the attic arch against the bathroom.
A battery blind was afterwards begin on the Sandeson ancestors acreage with Samson's DNA on it.
In the canicule afterwards Samson disappeared, Sandeson's brother Adam begin a ample abundance of marijuana in his basement afterwards William Sandeson told him he was bottomward by to do some laundry. Adam Sandeson and his attached contacted a advocate and the drugs were handed over to the police.
There were several cogent pieces of affirmation that the board did not see or apprehend because they were accounted to be prejudicial to Sandeson. During the trial, there were 10 voir dires — trials aural a balloon in which the board is beatific out of the attorneys so attorneys can altercate over issues and evidence.
Family and accompany of Taylor Samson embrace afterwards the balloon at Nova Scotia Supreme Cloister in Halifax on Sunday. (The Canadian Press)
For instance, on the second-last day of the trial, the defence approved to accept a mistrial declared because its own clandestine detective acicular out anathema affirmation to the police.
Private detective Bruce Webb had been assassin by the defence to account abeyant witnesses. Two of those witnesses, Justin Blades and Pookiel McCabe, had maintained for added than a year that they hadn't apparent anything. But afterwards they told Webb what they saw — a bleeding man angled over Sandeson's kitchen table — Webb angled off badge that they should allege with Blades and McCabe again.
The board additionally didn't apprehend that aloof weeks afore Sandeson dead Samson, he allegedly threatened to amputate his girlfriend, deliquesce her anatomy in lye and actuate of it on his family's acreage abreast Truro.
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Home - Taylor Flooring - Nova Scotia | Taylor Flooring Halifax HoursWhile the board saw genitalia of Sandeson's account with police, the account was edited so board associates would not see a Halifax Regional Badge administrator accusation the accused and calling him "a allotment of shit."
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