The verdict was delivered this week: the Borgarting Court of Appeal rejected the appeal that Marius Borg Høiby’s legal team filed against an order keeping him under electronically monitored detention at Skaugum, the royal estate.
Borg’s attorneys had pushed for a considerably lighter ruling — release under an omvendt voldsalarm, Norway’s reverse restraining-order system, which would have swapped confinement for movement restrictions barring him from certain areas. The appellate court wasn’t persuaded. Judges found too great a likelihood that Borg would reoffend if the current arrangement were loosened, and left the district court’s original…
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