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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-dennis-oland-alan-gold-oland-murder-1.5488634
· CBC News· Posted: Mar 06, 2020 3:34 PM AT
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Dennis Oland was acquitted last year after a retrial on a charge of first-degree murder in the death of his father, Richard Oland. He was interviewed for CBC's four-part series, The Oland Murder. (The Oland Murder/CBC)
A co-producer of a major documentary series on the Richard Oland murder case broadcast by the CBC is the daughter of Dennis Oland's lead defence lawyer, CBC News has learned.
The revelation casts a new light on the unprecedented access that the documentary team had to Dennis Oland and his defence team, including top criminal lawyer Alan Gold.
It also raises questions about journalistic judgment, given that series co-producer Caitlin Gold Teitelbaum is Gold's daughter.
CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices (JSP) says the corporation's news operations will "refrain from any involvement with stories in which a member of our immediate family (including in-laws) has a strong stake."
The Oland Murder, a four-part series that began airing on CBC Television on March 4, was not produced by CBC News employees but was commissioned by the corporation and produced by an independent production company, Seven Knots Media Inc.
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The Oland Murder was co-produced by Caitlin Gold, the daughter of Alan Gold, Dennis Oland's lead defence lawyer. (The Oland Murder/CBC)
Even so, lead producer Deborah Wainwright told a court last year that she would adhere to the same standards as CBC journalists.
"Am I correct to say that you don't consider yourself to be a journalist?" Crown lawyer Kathryn Gregory asked Wainwright, during a hearing on whether she could use audio recordings of Dennis Oland's two trials.
"I'm not a journalist, but for this project I'm adhering to the Journalistic Standards and Practices of the CBC," Wainwright replied. "I'm following the JSP for this project."
Gold Teitelbaum is listed as co-producer "Caitlin Gold" in the credits of the documentary, which tells the story of the July 2011 murder of Richard Oland and the prosecution of his son Dennis for the crime.
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Caitlan Gold got a co-producer credit as a courtesy after she helped the film crew gain access to the Oland family and defence team, the CBC says. (CBC)
Dennis Oland was convicted by a jury in his first trial in 2015 but, following an appeal of that decision, was acquitted by Justice Terrence Morrison at a retrial last July.
Wainwright did not respond to a request left on her voicemail.
CBC spokesperson Chuck Thompson said Friday in an emailed statement that the CBC was not aware of the family relationship before now, but the documentary "met all of our JSP guidelines," and "we have final say over the creative."
Gold Teitelbaum "provided the producers with unprecedented access to the defendant, as well as his defence team," Thompson said.
"She received an associate producer credit as a courtesy and while we acknowledge the family connection could be perceived as a conflict of interest, Caitlin had no editorial input."
Thompson's response contradicts Wainwright's account of how the team got access to the Oland family.
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Richard Oland, 69, was found dead in his Saint John office on July 7, 2011. (Canadian Yachting Association)
She told CBC's Information Morning Fredericton earlier this week that the family was "a little leery at first" but eventually agreed.
"I think perhaps the timing was right, and the fact I was from the other side of the country maybe seemed like I came with less of a bias," Wainwright said.
"I didn't know the Olands. I didn't know anything about New Brunswick, so I think I came with an open mind."
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Lead producer Deborah Wainwright didn't mention Caitlin Gold's connection when asked in interviews this week how she gained such broad access to the defence team during the murder trial. (CBC/The Oland Murder)
Wainwright did not reveal in that interview that her co-producer's father was Oland's defence lawyer.
In a Facebook post last month, Gold Teitelbaum described the project to friends as a three-year "journey" for her and "a wild ride," adding it was finally ready for air.
"Congrats Cait!" wrote one friend. "Does the best criminal defense lawyer in Canada (who shall remain nameless) make an appearance?"
Gold Teitelbaum replied with three heart emojis.
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Lisa Oland, Dennis Oland's wife was interviewed for The Oland Murder, which the CBC began broadcasting this week. (The Oland Murder/CBC)
She did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent via Facebook, and by mid-Friday afternoon the post about the series was no longer public on her page.
Stephen Kimber, who teaches journalism at the University of King's College in Halifax, said the CBC should be transparent about the Gold connection.
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A screen capture from Caitlin Gold's Facebook makes a reference to her father, Alan Gold. (Facebook)
Kimber said audience members would "have a hard job" distinguishing between CBC News content and an independently produced documentary, and in any case the corporation owes it to its audience to be up front about the Gold link.
"In this era of fake news, it's really important that all media outlets be as transparent as possible," he said.
While the broadcaster's documentary unit is separate from its news unit, CBC communications and marketing staff contacted CBC News producers in New Brunswick in recent weeks to ask for news coverage of the documentary's release.
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Connie Oland, Dennis Oland's mother and Richard Oland's widow, was interviewed for the four-part documentary. (The Oland Murder/CBC)
Wainwright appeared on the three local Information Morning shows in Saint John, Fredericton and Moncton, N.B., earlier this week to promote the documentary and also spoke to CBC Television in the province.
Two CBC News reporters who covered the trial, Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon and Robert Jones, were interviewed for the documentary without being told about the Gold connection. The series also uses CBC News archival footage.
The Globe and Mail television critic John Doyle gave The Oland Murder a rave review in a column on Monday, calling it "terrific true-crime storytelling."
Doyle noted the production's intimate access to Dennis Oland, his family and his defence lawyers, and said the series raised questions about the prosecution's case.
Wainwright applied to the Court of Queen's Bench last year for access to the court's audio recordings of the two Oland trials.
In her affidavit, she said Oland's defence lawyers had told her they did not object to the request. She said Gold had told her he didn't want her to use Oland's emotional reaction to the guilty verdict in the first trial, and she agreed.
She eventually dropped her request to use the audio.
199 Comments
David Amos
WOW Methinks its truly amazing how much went "Poof" in the last hour alone N'esy Pas?
David Amos
For the record Dick Oland was a friend of mine and I never met the rest of his family. However I know as sure as i am sitting here that his son did not murder him. Everybody knows that I do not trust his lawyers and the cops as far as I could throw them.
ROB CLARK
David Amos
Methinks Wainwright and Oland's lawyers and friends can never deny that I tried to talk them N'esy Pas?
David Amos
I am watching this "documentary" for the first time Thus far I have found that the opinion of the John Blackshear Phd to be the most impressive. So I called him and told him so just now byway of his voicemail.
David Amos
Reply to @David Amos: FYI I believed Dan Sosnowski too Trust that I called him as well and told him so personally.
toby mockler
CBC is 100% above board 100% of the time and is always 100% unbiased.
Robert William
What does it really matter, Dennis Oland was found not guilty, end of story.
Larry Larson
Samual Johnston
Reply to @Buddy Best: less than perfect investigation....ok there is no convincing someone that says that.
Jeffrey Winterbottom
The irony of talking about journalistic integrity here
David Amos
Chris Melvin
So first... tax payers pay both Bobbi Jean McKinnon and Robert Jones to sit in a courtroom for months to report on the trial... then McKinnon earns additional income from that by selling a book. Then Jones and McKinnon are likely paid to appear in this “documentary” funded by CBC but both claim they didn’t know Caitlin Gold was related to Alan Gold? Interesting....
jean forbes
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David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
Replying to @DavidRayAmos @alllibertynews and 49 others
If Dennis Oland is wise he would study my comments then ask his family and friends and particularly his lawyers about my contacts with them and the Crown after he went to prison
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2020/03/daughter-of-dennis-olands-defence.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-dennis-oland-alan-gold-oland-murder-1.5488634
Daughter of Dennis Oland's defence lawyer was a producer of CBC documentary The Oland Murder
Revelation raises questions about journalistic judgment in 4-part series airing on CBC
· CBC News· Posted: Mar 06, 2020 3:34 PM AT
Dennis Oland was acquitted last year after a retrial on a charge of first-degree murder in the death of his father, Richard Oland. He was interviewed for CBC's four-part series, The Oland Murder. (The Oland Murder/CBC)
A co-producer of a major documentary series on the Richard Oland murder case broadcast by the CBC is the daughter of Dennis Oland's lead defence lawyer, CBC News has learned.
The revelation casts a new light on the unprecedented access that the documentary team had to Dennis Oland and his defence team, including top criminal lawyer Alan Gold.
It also raises questions about journalistic judgment, given that series co-producer Caitlin Gold Teitelbaum is Gold's daughter.
CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices (JSP) says the corporation's news operations will "refrain from any involvement with stories in which a member of our immediate family (including in-laws) has a strong stake."
It adds that when a conflict is unavoidable, news managers and the journalist "will develop a protocol to protect the integrity of our journalism."
The Oland Murder, a four-part series that began airing on CBC Television on March 4, was not produced by CBC News employees but was commissioned by the corporation and produced by an independent production company, Seven Knots Media Inc.
The Oland Murder was co-produced by Caitlin Gold, the daughter of Alan Gold, Dennis Oland's lead defence lawyer. (The Oland Murder/CBC)
Even so, lead producer Deborah Wainwright told a court last year that she would adhere to the same standards as CBC journalists.
"Am I correct to say that you don't consider yourself to be a journalist?" Crown lawyer Kathryn Gregory asked Wainwright, during a hearing on whether she could use audio recordings of Dennis Oland's two trials.
"I'm not a journalist, but for this project I'm adhering to the Journalistic Standards and Practices of the CBC," Wainwright replied. "I'm following the JSP for this project."
Gold Teitelbaum is listed as co-producer "Caitlin Gold" in the credits of the documentary, which tells the story of the July 2011 murder of Richard Oland and the prosecution of his son Dennis for the crime.
Caitlan Gold got a co-producer credit as a courtesy after she helped the film crew gain access to the Oland family and defence team, the CBC says. (CBC)
Dennis Oland was convicted by a jury in his first trial in 2015 but, following an appeal of that decision, was acquitted by Justice Terrence Morrison at a retrial last July.
Wainwright did not respond to a request left on her voicemail.
CBC spokesperson Chuck Thompson said Friday in an emailed statement that the CBC was not aware of the family relationship before now, but the documentary "met all of our JSP guidelines," and "we have final say over the creative."
Gold Teitelbaum "provided the producers with unprecedented access to the defendant, as well as his defence team," Thompson said.
"She received an associate producer credit as a courtesy and while we acknowledge the family connection could be perceived as a conflict of interest, Caitlin had no editorial input."
Thompson's response contradicts Wainwright's account of how the team got access to the Oland family.
Richard Oland, 69, was found dead in his Saint John office on July 7, 2011. (Canadian Yachting Association)
She told CBC's Information Morning Fredericton earlier this week that the family was "a little leery at first" but eventually agreed.
"I think perhaps the timing was right, and the fact I was from the other side of the country maybe seemed like I came with less of a bias," Wainwright said.
"I didn't know the Olands. I didn't know anything about New Brunswick, so I think I came with an open mind."
Lead producer Deborah Wainwright didn't mention Caitlin Gold's connection when asked in interviews this week how she gained such broad access to the defence team during the murder trial. (CBC/The Oland Murder)
Wainwright did not reveal in that interview that her co-producer's father was Oland's defence lawyer.
In a Facebook post last month, Gold Teitelbaum described the project to friends as a three-year "journey" for her and "a wild ride," adding it was finally ready for air.
"Congrats Cait!" wrote one friend. "Does the best criminal defense lawyer in Canada (who shall remain nameless) make an appearance?"
Gold Teitelbaum replied with three heart emojis.
Lisa Oland, Dennis Oland's wife was interviewed for The Oland Murder, which the CBC began broadcasting this week. (The Oland Murder/CBC)
She did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent via Facebook, and by mid-Friday afternoon the post about the series was no longer public on her page.
Stephen Kimber, who teaches journalism at the University of King's College in Halifax, said the CBC should be transparent about the Gold connection.
"It is an important issue for viewers to know when they see the documentary … that there was this personal connection," he said. "Then they are in a position as an audience to make a judgment about what they think about the legitimacy of all of that. That's the key to me."
A screen capture from Caitlin Gold's Facebook makes a reference to her father, Alan Gold. (Facebook)
Kimber said audience members would "have a hard job" distinguishing between CBC News content and an independently produced documentary, and in any case the corporation owes it to its audience to be up front about the Gold link.
"In this era of fake news, it's really important that all media outlets be as transparent as possible," he said.
"It's that kind of transparency that is, first of all, really important for the audience to know. And secondly from the CBC's point of view, its credibility, which is obviously vital to its function, is called into question if it's not transparent."
While the broadcaster's documentary unit is separate from its news unit, CBC communications and marketing staff contacted CBC News producers in New Brunswick in recent weeks to ask for news coverage of the documentary's release.
Connie Oland, Dennis Oland's mother and Richard Oland's widow, was interviewed for the four-part documentary. (The Oland Murder/CBC)
Wainwright appeared on the three local Information Morning shows in Saint John, Fredericton and Moncton, N.B., earlier this week to promote the documentary and also spoke to CBC Television in the province.
Two CBC News reporters who covered the trial, Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon and Robert Jones, were interviewed for the documentary without being told about the Gold connection. The series also uses CBC News archival footage.
The Globe and Mail television critic John Doyle gave The Oland Murder a rave review in a column on Monday, calling it "terrific true-crime storytelling."
Doyle noted the production's intimate access to Dennis Oland, his family and his defence lawyers, and said the series raised questions about the prosecution's case.
In her affidavit, she said Oland's defence lawyers had told her they did not object to the request. She said Gold had told her he didn't want her to use Oland's emotional reaction to the guilty verdict in the first trial, and she agreed.
She eventually dropped her request to use the audio.
With files from Hadeel Ibrahim
199 Comments
David Amos
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Methinks Chucky Thompson should agree that would not be wise to block my latest comment N'esy Pas? David Amos
WOW Methinks its truly amazing how much went "Poof" in the last hour alone N'esy Pas?
David Amos
For the record Dick Oland was a friend of mine and I never met the rest of his family. However I know as sure as i am sitting here that his son did not murder him. Everybody knows that I do not trust his lawyers and the cops as far as I could throw them.
ROB CLARK
Reply to @David Amos: Methinks N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @ROB CLARK: Your point is???
David Amos
Methinks Wainwright and Oland's lawyers and friends can never deny that I tried to talk them N'esy Pas?
Manny Fredrick
Reply to @David Amos: What language are you speaking?
Larry Larson
Reply to @Manny Fredrick: Il speaks Chiac!
David Amos
Reply to @Larry Larson: C'est Vrai However methinks I am a man not a thing N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Manny Fredrick: Google the following in English
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David Amos
I am watching this "documentary" for the first time Thus far I have found that the opinion of the John Blackshear Phd to be the most impressive. So I called him and told him so just now byway of his voicemail.
David Amos
Reply to @David Amos: FYI I believed Dan Sosnowski too Trust that I called him as well and told him so personally.
toby mockler
CBC is 100% above board 100% of the time and is always 100% unbiased.
Buddy Best
Reply to @toby mockler: LOL Sarcasm!!!
David Amos
Reply to @toby mockler: Yea Right
Robert William
What does it really matter, Dennis Oland was found not guilty, end of story.
Max Kaminsky
Reply to @Robert William:
Now comes the task of rehabilitating the image of a Liberal Party fundraiser.
Now comes the task of rehabilitating the image of a Liberal Party fundraiser.
Diane Knight
Reply to @Robert William: If it was your father, it would matter.
David Amos
Reply to @Robert William: Nope The killer has yet to meet justice
David Amos
Reply to @Max Kaminsky: Methinks Higgy's minions have no class N'esy Pas?
Buddy Best
Reply to @Robert William: Merely one humans opinion. The judge in each of their involvements were wrong except for the first one. Jury said Guilty!!! End of story!!!!!
Buddy Best
Reply to @Robert William: Merely one humans opinion. The judge in each of their involvements were wrong except for the first one. Jury said Guilty!!! End of story!!!!!
Max Kaminsky
CBC defending friends of the Liberal Party of Canada.
drew Currah
Reply to @Max Kaminsky:
Never!!!!!
Never!!!!!
Fred Dee
Reply to @drew Currah: lol
Buddy Best
Reply to @drew Currah: You missed the trial and the doc!!
Mackenna Wilson
Reply to @Max Kaminsky: Ironic when Putin's employees call the CBC an engine of the Liberal Party.
David Amos
Reply to @Mackenna Wilson: Methinks the truth is more often ironic than not N'esy Pas/
Film has zero credibility!
Buddy Best
Reply to @Larry Larson: The defence team had a high priced investigation team to dig up a lot of evidence and didn't do so well. They could find one single other suspect. Is Oland suing for costs now and this is the catalyst. I expect this cost the family million$.
Samual Johnston
Reply to @Buddy Best: is not up to them to find another suspect. A blind man at midnight could see the police bungled the whole investigation and tried to pin it on the son. So much reasonable doubt existed it is a crime that he was found guilty to begin with. Saint John jealousy
Mackenna Wilson
Reply to @Buddy Best: They weren't looking for suspects. It's not their job. It's the crown's job to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt. Defense has no obligation to find suspects.
Buddy Best
Reply to @Mackenna Wilson: If they had found so much as a hair that pointed in any other direction you would be singing a different tune and so would they. The came, they looked and they found nothing!!!!! The crow must stay with just provable facts, but the defence can claim Martians did it as an alternative. In this case the cops did it? Guilty.
David Amos
Reply to @Larry Larson: Methinks many folks found it well worth watching even if it was just a self promoting production by Gold and his pals at the expense of their client whether he win or lose They made out like bandits N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Buddy Best: Methinks you should watch it again with your lawyer I suspect that he will tell you done it.I bet even you must have laughed when Mindless Morris rolled her eyes when she said Gold must be a good lawyer merely because he has represented the Hells Angels N'esy Pas?
Reply to @Buddy Best: less than perfect investigation....ok there is no convincing someone that says that.
Jeffrey Winterbottom
The irony of talking about journalistic integrity here
David Amos
Reply to @Jeffrey Winterbottom: Welcome to the circus
Chris Melvin
So first... tax payers pay both Bobbi Jean McKinnon and Robert Jones to sit in a courtroom for months to report on the trial... then McKinnon earns additional income from that by selling a book. Then Jones and McKinnon are likely paid to appear in this “documentary” funded by CBC but both claim they didn’t know Caitlin Gold was related to Alan Gold? Interesting....
jean forbes
Reply to @Chris Melvin: don't ya know - it is disrespectful to ask 'personal' questions of folks telling you what they want you to know?
Buddy Best
Reply to @Chris Melvin: I had the utmost respect for Robert and Bobbi Jean until now.
David Amos
Reply to @Buddy Best: Trust that I NEVER did
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