The second-degree murder trial of Dennis Oland hearing that an attempt to find Richard Oland’s cell phone on July 9, 2011 produced a roaming error. That phone was the only thing missing from Richard Oland’s investment firm office in uptown Saint John, which is where his body was found face down in a pool of blood on July 7, 2011.
Investigator with Rogers Communications Sylvie Gill being cross-examined by defence lawyer Alan Gold and agreeing that on June 24, 2011 there was roaming usage on Richard Oland’s phone however his phone was registered on the Rogers Network on July 6, 2011, the day before the body was found.
An agreed statement of facts between the prosecution and defence, having to do with what roaming error and absent subscriber means, being read out loud in the courtroom by Justice Walsh.
It states that a roaming error could mean “a.) the phone was registered on a foreign network (in which Rogers does not have a roaming agreement) or b.) that Rogers has no indication on the network to reach out to, in order to request location of device as records of device’s location have been purged from Rogers Network databases due to a period of inactivity or c.) the phone location cannot be obtained from Rogers Network for some unspecified reason.”
The agreed statement of facts also states that absent subscriber “could mean Rogers has an indication where on the network to reach out in order to request the location of the device but the device is not reachable.”
President of the Canadian Association of Broadcast Consulstants Joseph Sadoun has been declared an expert on cellular networks at the trial and is giving testimony. This on day 38 of Dennis Oland’s murder trial. 65 days have been set aside at the Saint John Law Courts.
CHSJ News reporter Laura Lyall is covering the trial and is live-tweeting from the courtroom. To follow along to to the CHSJ News Twitter page or the Wave News Twitter page.
