CALGARY – The lawyer for a man convicted for his role in the COVID-19 border blockade at Coutts, Alta., urged Appeal Court judges Thursday to toss out the verdict, saying the trial judge made irreconcilable errors.

Katherin Beyak, the lawyer for Chris Carbert, listed eight grounds of appeal and argued that the trial judge erred in failing to exclude evidence from the jury obtained from an improperly issued search warrant.

The warrant was offside, Beyak said, because it claimed it was to obtain information and data related to the illegal protest at the border but was really tied to a search for weapons.

“This is all a ruse,” Beyak told the three-member panel of judges.

“They were never searching for documents or data.

“That’s not the true intention of their search. They are trying to g

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