‘The truth… is not optional’
Judge sentences convicted killer Zachery David Murphy, 25, to 3½ years for lying at former partner’s first-degree murder trial in January 2023, which resulted in 2nd-degree guilty plea
Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of a violent crime.
A judge said a confessed killer’s decision to lie at the murder trial of the main aggressor in the case threatened to undermine the public’s faith in the criminal-justice system merited a significant sentence.
Fredericton provincial court Judge Natalie LeBlanc, in rendering her decision on sentence in the perjury case of Zachery David Murphy, 25, formerly of Kings College Road in Fredericton, imposed a 3½-year prison sentence for the crime Wednesday.
Murphy is already serving a life sentence in prison for second-degree murder in the April 2020 stabbing death of Clark Ernest Hunter Greene in Fredericton.