13-06-2018 22:53 via edmontonjournal.com

Kick may not have killed victim, security guard's lawyer argues at manslaughter trial

An Edmonton security guard doesn’t dispute that he kicked a man who died of abdominal trauma, but his lawyer argued Wednesday that the evidence at trial doesn’t prove the kick was the fatal blow.
The assertion was made during closing arguments at a trial for Sheldon Russell Bentley, 37, who is accused of the manslaughter and robbery of Donald Doucette, 51, who died on July 31, 2016.
Crown prosecutor Kristen Logan argued that witness accounts and video evidence prove Doucette, who was
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