HALIFAX – The lawyer for a Nova Scotia man appealing his first-degree murder conviction in the death of Amber Kirwan says the Crown and trial judge made errors in the way they described evidence to the jury.
Lee Seshagiri argued today in the Appeal Court of Nova Scotia that the jury may have been confused on whether evidence had to be accepted as fact in the trial of Christopher Alexander Falconer last February.
A panel of three judges heard his detailed legal arguments about what evidence was binding in the case.
Falconer was given an automatic sentence of life in prison with no parole eligibility for 25 years after he was convicted by a jury in January.
He had pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the death of Kirwan, a 19-year-old woman who vanished after leaving a pool hall in New Glasgow on Oct. 9, 2011.
Her naked, bound remains were discovered in a clandestine grave about a month later in nearby Heathbell.
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