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Convicted murderer Nathan Gervais has appealed his finding of guilt in the swarming death of a Calgary teen.

In a document filed Friday at the Alberta Court of Appeal by defence lawyer Alain Hepner, Gervais said his conviction for first-degree murder ought to be overturned.

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“The verdict is unreasonable and cannot be supported by the evidence,” his notice of appeal states.

It also said the decision by Court of Queen’s Bench Justice William Tilleman “erred in law in interpreting and applying the test for circumstantial evidence (and) … the test for constructive first-degree murder.”

Tilleman rejected the Crown’s theory Gervais planned and deliberated the killing of Lukas Strasser-Hird when he armed himself with a knife after an initial altercation outside a city nightclub.

But Tilleman said when Gervais and a group of other males cornered Strasser-Hird in an alley behind the bar just minutes later, he committed an unlawful confinement.