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A second trial will not go ahead if the earlier convictions are upheld on appeal. (CBC) An appeal hearing in the Robert Pickton murder case has been tentatively scheduled for nine days in Vancouver starting March 30, 2009. Six issues will be argued in the appeal, including the charge to the jury by B.C. Supreme Court Justice James Williams, in which he said jurors could convict even if they found Pickton didn’t act alone. Pickton was found guilty in December of second-degree murder in the deaths of six women who disappeared from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The former pig farmer from Coquitlam, B.C., has also been charged with 20 more counts of murder in similar cases, but B.C’s Attorney General Wally Oppal has said the second trial will not go ahead if the six convictions are upheld at the appeal. Full Story What do you think? Should Pickton be tried on the 20 outstanding murder charges?
