Dennis Oland pleads not guilty, again, in 2011 death of millionaire father
SAINT JOHN, N.B. — For the second time in his life, Dennis Oland has stood before a New Brunswick judge and declared he is not guilty of the second-degree murder of his father, Richard Oland.
The 50-year-old Oland entered his plea on Monday as jury selection began in a courtroom set up on a covered ice sheet in Saint John’s largest hockey arena.
It was the first day in what promises to be a lengthy retrial of the soft-spoken investment adviser, who is accused of beating his multi-millionaire father to death in 2011.
The verdict in Oland’s 2015 jury trial was set aside on appeal in 2016 and the new trial ordered.