March 28, 2024

Date set for Joshua Berner to stand trial again

A date has been set for Joshua Berner’s second-degree murder trial to be heard a second time.

Berner was convicted in 2010 in the death of Benjamin Warland.

The two men had gotten off a bus in Vancouver, got into a fight, and Berner ended up punching Warland in the head with a knife.

Berner claimed self-defence.

He appealed, and in April, the BC Court of Appeal overturned the conviction, saying the trial judge failed to instruct the jury he could have been convicted of the lesser charge of manslaughter.

A new trial date has been set for May 27th, 2013.

His case made headlines because his mother, Carol, was facing prosecution at the time for killing a four-year-old girl in Delta in 2008.

She is appealing her convictions of impaired and dangerous driving causing death.

CKNW Vancouver News

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