FOG BLOG NB JUSTICE LOG: JURY DELIBERATING ON ROBBY POLCHIES CASE IN THE DEATH OF COREY SISSON!

Jury begins deliberations in Polchies trial.....Justice Terrence Morrison laid out the evidence and arguments in his instructions to jury......A jury of 12 has begun deliberations to determine whether Robby Polchies is guilty of the 2019 murder of Corey Sisson.

Polchies, 34, is accused of fatally shooting 19-year-old Sisson on a wooded trail in Noonan, outside Fredericton on July 29, 2019. He is charged with first degree murder, meaning the Crown needed to show that Polchies intended to kill Sisson and that the act was both planned and deliberate.

In his instruction, Court of Queen's Bench Justice Terrence Morrison told the jury it was not in doubt that Corey Sisson was killed and his body found in Noonan.

He said the events surrounding the case emerged from drug subculture.

"Many if not all of the key participants in the narrative were involved in a lifestyle that includes drug use, drug dealing and other criminal or unsavoury activity," said Morrison.

He told jurors it wasn't possible to understand the case or relationships of those involved without getting into the details of that subculture.

But, he warned the jurors against using that evidence to conclude that Polchies is a bad person and therefore could be more likely to have committed the crime, or to conclude he should be punished for his past misconduct.