Steven Neville pleads not guilty to Paradise stabbing death

Steven Neville, the Newfoundland man who was sent to prison for stabbing two men andkilling one of them, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to second-degree murder.

The Supreme Court of Canada overturned Neville's murder conviction in November, after the same appeal was dismissed by theNewfoundland and Labrador Court of Appeal seven months earlier.

A St. John's jury found Neville guilty in 2013 of fatally stabbingDoug Flynn, 19, and theattempted murder of another man, Ryan Dwyer in 2010.

Flynn and Dwyer werestabbedon Carlisle Drive, in the suburb ofParadise, the jury was told the culmination of a feud that had been brewing between the three men.

Flynn was killed by a stab wound to the head.

Judge erred in instruction to jury

Neville, who was sentenced to life in prison without chance of parole for 12 years, contended thatThompson's instructions to the jury to consider evidence related to the intent necessary for a murder conviction in comparison to manslaughter wasinsufficient.

Secondly, Neville said that Thompson didn't properly answer one of threequestionsthe jury asked while deliberating.

Five Supreme Court of Canada justices agreed, addingThompson's instructions to the jury on what provocation is wereconfusing.

Neville's two new defence lawyers, Mark Gruchy and Jeff Brace who have also taken on Brandon Phillips's first-degree murder case will likely seek bail for their client.

He was sent from a federal prison on the mainlandto Her Majesty's Penitentiary in St. John's, shortly after a new trial was ordered.