A Saskatoon judge is not admitting a key witness interview with police in the Taylor Wolff murder trial, at least partly because police did not place the witness under oath before the original interview.
Lane Boorman had told police in 2008 that Taylor Wolff had showed him a handgun and told him to stay away from the house owned by James Carlson in Watrous, Sask.
Carlson disappeared that month and has not been seen since. He had been scheduled to testify against Wolff at a drug hearing a month after he vanished.
Boorman completely reversed his story when he testified last week. He said that he had lied to police in 2008 because he was frightened and was only telling them what he believed they wanted to hear.
Prosecutor Bill Burge then made a motion to have Boorman's original interview entered as evidence.
Justice Allbright did not allow that. He noted that police did not make Boorman swear an oath or affirm before his interview. The two officers did also not stress the importance of telling the truth, or properly explain the consequences of not being truthful.
The trial began last week and featured a variety of witnesses who knew Wolff and Carlson, and admitted to heavy drug in the small town east of Saskatoon.
One witness testified that Wolff had told her that he shot Carlson and then dumped the man's body down a well.
Carlson was last seen on May 14, 2008. He was a mechanic who worked on farm equipment and he has not been seen since that night.
His car and work truck were discovered abandoned on two separate rural properties.