Erick Buhr fired lawyer, requested mistrial before being convicted of grandmothers death [Video]

Erick Buhr fired his lawyer and unsuccessfully requested a mistrial, a week before a jury convicted him of second-degree murder in the death of his grandmother, Viola Erb.

The details of what happened in the courtroom on Oct. 28 can now be reported.

The jury was not present that day. The lawyers and the judge were scheduled to meet to discuss the judge’s instructions to the jury, to be delivered following closing addresses and ahead of deliberations.

Instead, Buhr announced he was seeking a new lawyer and wanted a mistrial declared.

Buhr had testified in his own defense in the days prior. During cross-examination, the crown pointed out numerous inconsistencies in what Buhr said at different times.

Emergency services respond to a home on Sandhills Road on Saturday Sept. 24, 2022. (Dan Lauckner/CTV Kitchener)

For instance, Buhr testified he slept from about 4:00 a.m. until 9:30 a.m. on Sept. 24, 2022, the day of Erb’s death. But cell phone records show he was texting and …