Supreme Court of Canada

Date: 2013-04-16 Docket: 34980

Between:

Matthew James Murphy — Appellant

and

Her Majesty The Queen — Respondent

Coram: LeBel, Fish, Rothstein, Cromwell and Moldaver JJ.

Reasons for Judgment: (para. 1) LeBel J. (Fish, Rothstein, Cromwell and Moldaver JJ. concurring)

R. v. Murphy, 2013 SCC 21, [2013] 2 S.C.R. 178

Matthew James Murphy — Appellant

v.

Her Majesty The Queen — Respondent

Indexed as: R. v. Murphy

2013 SCC 21

File No.: 34980.

2013: April 16.

Present: LeBel, Fish, Rothstein, Cromwell and Moldaver JJ.

on appeal from the court of appeal for nova scotia

Criminal law — Reasonable verdicts — Accused convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and attempted murder — Sufficient evidence to support trial judge's conclusions — Verdicts entered by trial judge reasonable.

APPEAL from a judgment of the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal (MacDonald C.J.N.S. and Saunders and Beveridge JJ.A.), 2012 NSCA 92, 320 N.S.R. (2d) 355, 291 C.C.C. (3d) 471, [2012] N.S.J. No. 472 (QL), 2012 CarswellNS 641, upholding the accused's convictions for conspiracy to commit murder and attempted murder. Appeal dismissed.

Roger A. Burrill, for the appellant.

William D. Delaney, Q.C., and Timothy S. O'Leary, for the respondent.

Reasons for Judgment

The judgment of the Court was delivered orally by

[1] LeBel J. — We all agree with the majority of the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal that the verdict was not unreasonable. The appeal is dismissed.

Judgment accordingly.

Solicitor for the appellant: Nova Scotia Legal Aid, Halifax.

Solicitor for the respondent: Public Prosecution Service of Nova Scotia, Halifax.