Witness who admits lying testifies about hearing plan to kill Jamie Leard
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The jury in a Moncton murder trial was sent home until next week after an issue arose late Wednesday.
Court of King's Bench Justice Robert Dysart told jurors that an issue related to the law is being discussed, and he and the lawyers need more time to discuss it. The jurors were sent home until Tuesday morning.
A publication ban prohibits reporting more about the issue, which arose on the seventh day of Henry Pottie's trial on a charge of first-degree murder.
It's alleged Pottie killed Jamie Leard on May 25, 2021, in Upper Cape, a rural area about 80 kilometres east of Moncton.
Earlier on Wednesday, the jury heard testimony from two witnesses.
Zach Johnson was the second witness.
His testimony offered one of the first suggestions of a potential motive in the case.
He testified Pottie had told him of a plot to kill Leard to inherit his house and possessions. However, Johnson's credibility came under question for lying to police.
Johnson testified that in the days before Leard died Pottie came to his house offering to trade a young raccoon for crack cocaine.
Johnson said a third man was waiting in a car, but he didn't initially recognize the man. He said that after Leard disappeared, he saw the man's photo and believes it was Leard in the car.
After the discussion about the raccoon, Johnson said, Pottie told him "he had to make the person in the vehicle disappear."
"He said he was going to make Jamie disappear because he was going to get Jamie's four wheeler and house and all of his stuff," Johnson testified.
"They were going to make it look like he was going to kill himself. They were going to write a will."
He testified that Pottie told him that Sean Patterson was making him do it.
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