Brandon Phillips has filed an appeal of his second-degree murder conviction for the shooting death of Larry Wellman in 2015. Phillips's lawyer Mark Gruchy confirmed that an appeal has been filed and contains many grounds, including the "reasonableness of the verdict." A jury found Phillips guilty of a lesser charge of second-degree murder in December, after a lengthy and emotional trial which saw testimony from McBay, first responders and bar patrons. On Feb. 28, Supreme Court Justice Valerie Marshall ruled that Phillips would not be eligible for parole for at least 12 years. Justice Marshall erred in law, defence arguesIn the appeal filed last Friday, the defence lists eight ways in which Marshall erred in law and offers examples of the instructions to the jury being "confusing."

Source: CBC News March 28, 2018 14:08 UTC