Fog Blog Marissa Shephard's Verdict Overturned Log:

MARISSA SHEPHARD WAS CONVICTED OF 1ST DEGREE MURDER OF BAYLEE WYLEE . HIS BODY WAS BEATEN AND BURNED ......BUT NOW.......

The New Brunswick Court of Appeal has overturned the first-degree murder conviction of Marissa Shephard and ordered a new trial.

Shephard, 24, was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years in June 2018 in the murder of 18-year-old Baylee Wylie.

Wylie's body was found burned and beaten in a New Brunswick Housing tri-plex in Moncton in December 2015.

During Shephard's trial, the court heard of a drug-fuelled night of partying that resulted in Wylie being bound to a chair, beaten and stabbed with multiple objects. He suffered more than 140 "sharp-force injuries," a pathologist testified.