CP NewsAlert: Halifax jury finds William Sandeson guilty of second-degree murder

By The Canadian Press on February 18, 2023.

William Sandeson, left, arrives for his preliminary hearing at provincial court in Halifax on Thursday, February 11, 2016.A jury started its third day of deliberations today in the trial of a former Halifax medical student charged with first-degree murder in the 2015 shooting death of a fellow student. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese

HALIFAX – A former Halifax medical student has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of a fellow student during a drug deal.

William Sandeson told a Nova Scotia Supreme Court jury he killed physics student Taylor Samson in self-defence on Aug. 15, 2015, but the jury rejected that claim.

Jury members deliberated for 23 hours, beginning Thursday, before delivering their verdict at a Halifax-area courthouse.

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