{"id":132,"date":"2016-09-16T18:17:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T22:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=132"},"modified":"2016-09-16T18:17:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T22:17:18","slug":"travis-vader-wants-judge-to-declare-mistrial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/09\/16\/travis-vader-wants-judge-to-declare-mistrial\/","title":{"rendered":"Travis Vader Wants Judge to Declare Mistrial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After filing notice to appeal with the Alberta Court of Appeal, Travis Vader&#8217;s lawyers sent a letter on Friday to Justice Denny Thomas, asking Thomas to declare a mistrial and set aside Vader&#8217;s\u00a0second-degree murder convictions.<\/p>\n<p>If the judge\u00a0agrees, it could mean ordering a new trial for\u00a0Vader.<\/p>\n<p>Vader\u00a0was charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the July, 2010 deaths of Lyle and Marie McCann.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, the legal community\u00a0weighed in across the country to point out what they describe as a &#8220;fatal error&#8221; in the judge&#8217;s decision, \u00a0which was delivered Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0section of the Criminal Code\u00a0that Thomas used\u00a0to convict Vader was declared unconstitutional in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>The Crown and defence\u00a0lawyers have already agreed to meet again Oct. 3 to set a date for sentencing and\u00a0Vader&#8217;s lawyer, Brian Beresh, is asking Justice Thomas to consider the application for a mistrial on that date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">After filing notice to appeal with the Alberta Court of Appeal, Travis Vader&#8217;s lawyers sent a letter on Friday to Justice Denny Thomas, asking Thomas to declare a mistrial and set aside Vader&#8217;s\u00a0second-degree murder convictions. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/09\/16\/travis-vader-wants-judge-to-declare-mistrial\/\" title=\"Travis Vader Wants Judge to Declare Mistrial\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[47,48,45,49,50,51,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"category-news","9":"tag-alberta","10":"tag-brian-beresh","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-lyle-mccann","13":"tag-marie-mccann","14":"tag-murder","15":"tag-travis-vader","16":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}