Douglas Garland is shown here in this 2014 photo being escorted into a Calgary police station. (Canadian Press/Jeff McIntosh)

By Canadian Press

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Convicted murderer Douglas Garland’s rights were violated: Lawyer

May 9, 2019 | 9:55 PM

The Alberta Court of Appeal has reserved its decision in a bid by a Calgary man to overturn his conviction in the murders of a couple and their grandson.

The lawyer for Douglas Garland argues evidence found at his client’s farm after Alvin and Kathy Liknes and five-year-old Nathan O’Brien disappeared should not have been allowed at his first-degree murder trial.

Alias Sanders told the court that police didn’t have enough evidence to obtain a search warrant when they went to the farm looking for the trio.

Sanders argued Garland’s constitutional rights were violated when he was initially arrested and held while the property was searched.

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