Schreiner’s appeal application was dismissed this week. He’s serving a life sentence for the murder of his spouse, Tammy Brown.
SCC appeals are only heard if a leave to appeal is granted.
The trial judge agreed with the Crown’s psychiatrist, ruling Schreiner wasn’t suffering from a mental disorder at the time of the killing, and convicted him of second-degree murder. He was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 17 years.
Schreiner had also told a psychiatrist that he was concerned Brown was going to leave him and prevent him from seeing their kids. Schreiner and Brown were separated at the time; their two young children were living with Brown and were at the home during the murder.
“He said that while thinking of all of this, including whether or not he should kill her, he went outside for a smoke. When he came back he thought he needed to get rid of (Brown),” the appeal judges wrote, citing Mills’s trial decision.
In his appeal to Saskatchewan’s top court, Schreiner argued those statements were “protected” and shouldn’t have been used to convict him of murder because they were provided during a medical assessment.
The SCC does not provide reasons for dismissing an appeal application.
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