Alberta appeal court quashes murder conviction, orders new trial for co-accused in Connie Oakes case
Crown admits ‘error is serious’
Medicine Hat
Connie Oakes case: Red car police said was used in murder was sold for cash, drugs before killing
Car was bought by drug dealer named ‘Ginger’ who was initially fingered by Crown’s star witness
Medicine Hat claims to have eliminated homelessness
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Medicine Hat police could face public investigation over how officers handled murder case against Cree woman
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Police fed information to stoned Crown witness to build murder case against Cree woman: court docs
A star witness for an Alberta Crown prosecutor says she was fed evidence by police while stoned during “coercive” interrogations to build a murder case against a Cree woman, according to court documents filed with the Court of Appeal of Alberta.
A boot print, a knife, a murder and a Cree woman’s claim of innocence
Three days after she was sentenced to life in prison for murdering a man with a knife through the neck, Connie Oakes, wearing a grey T-shirt and grey sweat pants, picked up the telephone receiver on the other side of the Plexiglas in the visiting area at the Medicine Hat, Alta., remand centre and said she didn’t do it.