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The gang leader behind a botched hit that led to the death of a 34-year-old mother of four has had his appeal dismissed by Saskatchewan’s top court.
Joshua Petrin was appealing his 2016 conviction in the death of Lorry Ann Santos.
Santos was shot to death in the front entryway of her home in September 2012. It was later revealed the two gunmen responsible had gone to the wrong address.
Petrin was found to have directed the two men to murder a former member of his White Boy Posse gang, which ran a drug-dealing operation in Alberta and the Northwest Territories and had started making inroads into Saskatchewan.
The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal issued a unanimous decision Tuesday dismissing Petrin’s appeal.
He had argued his case should be re-tried on the grounds that payments made to some witnesses weren’t disclosed and that the trial judge didn’t do enough to account for credibility issues with certain witnesses’ testimony.
Justice Ralph Ottenbreit authored the decision rejecting Petrin’s appeal on behalf of the three-judge panel.
“On the whole, the verdict of the trial judge was one that she could properly have rendered based on the evidence before her,” he wrote.
Petrin was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in Santos’ death. He’s serving a life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years.