HALIFAX -- A hearing to determine the parole eligibility for Christopher Garnier will resume in August.
The proceeding started yesterday, but was adjourned until the end of August partly because the defence wants an expert witness to testify.
The Crown says Garnier should have to serve 16 years before he can apply for parole.
Parole ineligibility for second-degree murder must be set between 10 and 25 years.
The 30-year-old Halifax man was convicted of killing Catherine Campbell, an off-duty police officer, and used a green bin to dispose of her body.
Garnier faces an automatic sentence of life in prison after being convicted in December of second-degree murder and interfering with a dead body in the 2015 death of the 36-year-old officer.
The jury found that Garnier strangled Campbell, a Truro police officer, and left her body near a harbour bridge on September 11th, 2015, after the pair met at a Halifax bar.
Garnier had argued at his trial that Campbell died accidentally during rough sex.
He is appealing his conviction in part because he says police interview tactics elicited a false confession.
