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Honourable Mr. Justice Edward
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Even as millions are spent
on this inquiry into a 37 year old murder, two prime examples
of how wrongful convictions occur are unfolding in Saskatoon.
Wilfred Hathway is having
his defence severely handicapped as prosecutor Brent Klause has
successfully obtained an order from now Chief Justice Robert
Laing to keep disclosure out of the hands of his defence team.
Denver Crawford's
memory is not being well served. Material has surfaced which
indicates Dominic McCullock's
lawyer, Mark Brayford, did not provide a vigorous defence for
his client who was convicted of killing Jaime
Wheeler. This brutal murder was described as savage, committed
by a dangerous person, by Judge Laing, even though the conviction
was for second degree murder. This raises again the 2000 conviction
of Leon Walchuk who has steadfastly
maintained his innocence in the murder of his wife and whose
appeals have been turned down, despite evidence not presented
at trial which would show serious flaws in the Crown's case.
More
background (also see
links on sidebar) Sask to
give inquiry another $700,000
Former detective apologizes
to Milgaard
Betty Ann Adam, The
StarPhoenix, Tuesday, September 13, 2005
David Milgaard received an
apology Monday from a Saskatoon police officer involved in the
investigation that led to his wrongful conviction for murder
35 years ago.
Milgaard's mother, Joyce, wept
quietly when commission counsel Doug Hodson read the words of
former Saskatoon detective Elmer Ullrich.
"The tears came to my
eyes again, tears of happiness. You finally hear someone say
they're sorry. I'm so grateful," Joyce Milgaard said after
the inquiry ended for the day.
Ullrich, now 76, was the police
officer who prepared a case summary outlining the evidence against
Milgaard for the Crown prosecutor in 1969.
Ullrich did not testify at
the inquiry in person because of health problems. His testimony,
videotaped Aug. 25, 2005, at the commission office in Saskatoon,
was played at Monday's hearing.
The apology was not videotaped.
It was included in typed notes Ullrich prepared in advance of
his interview with assistant commission counsel Jordan Hardy.
Hardy intended to question
Ullrich on two sections of his notes headed "Apology"
and "Why did the system fail?" but the interview ended
early because of Ullrich's poor health.
"I am sincerely sorry
and wish to herewith express and extend my apologies to the Milgaards
and in particular to David Milgaard for the mistake we made,"
Ullrich wrote.
"I can only say I did
not intend to find him guilty when he was innocent. At the time
I thought we, the police, were right in charging him. Obviously
we were not," he wrote.
The apology was especially
welcome to Joyce, who was offended at another officer's earlier
refusal to apologize or to acknowledge any mistakes by the police.
Former detective Eddy Karst said in August he didn't have anything
to apologize for.
Milgaard travelled to Portugal
to visit friends in the two weeks since Karst's testimony.
"I had to leave the country.
I felt hopeless," she said. "Even though they all say
they did nothing wrong, the media is bringing out what they did
wrong. I hope today's police don't want to be put in the same
position.
"I guess there's hope.
I hope some good will come out."
"I hope there will be
more of that," she said referring to Ullrich's admission
that police made a mistake.
Milgaard was a 16-year-old
hippie who happened to be in Saskatoon on the frigid January
morning when nursing assistant Gail Miller was raped and stabbed
to death.
Milgaard was convicted after
three teenage friends gave false statements against him. He spent
23 years in prison before he was released in 1992 based on a
Supreme Court of Canada review of the case. DNA evidence proved
his innocence in 1997 and was used to convict serial rapist Larry
Fisher of the crime in 1999.
Ullrich also wrote in his recent
notes that "murder cases can be compared to large jigsaw
puzzles. Some pieces of the puzzle are immediately identified
while others can elude the people trying to piece this all together."
Ullrich also wrote that "the
human factor" enters the process and "unfortunately,
human often fail, accordingly the system . . . is designed to
ensure mistakes are corrected."
The commission of inquiry has
completed the police investigation phase of hearings. It moves
on today to an examination of information about Fisher, who is
currently serving a life sentence in Miller's death.
Commission transcripts and
documents are available on the Internet at www.milgaardinquiry.ca.
© The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon) 2005
Former cop who prepared
1969 case against Milgaard apologizes
CBC, Sep 13, 2005
A former Saskatoon police officer
has apologized for his actions that helped lead to the wrongful
conviction of David Milgaard. In 1969, Elmer Ullrich prepared
a case summary outlining the evidence against Milgaard in the
rape and murder of Gail Miller.
Ullrich, who is now 76 and
in poor health, did not appear at the Saskatoon inquiry into
Milgaard's conviction. Inquiry lawyer Doug Hodson read the apology
Monday from Ullrich's notes.
"I am sincerely sorry
and wish to herewith express and extend my apologies to the Milgaards
and in particular to David Milgaard for the mistake we made,"
Ullrich wrote.
"I can only say I did
not intend to find him guilty when he was innocent. At the time
I thought we, the police, were right in charging him. Obviously
we were not."
Milgaard's mother, Joyce, was
in the room when the statement was read, and began to weep.
"The tears came to my eyes again, tears of happiness. You
finally hear someone say they're sorry. I'm so grateful,"
she said later.
Ullrich's apology follows the
August appearance of another retired police officer, Eddy Karst,
who refused to apologize.
"I certainly feel sorry
for David Milgaard, or anyone else that has been wrongly incarcerated,
or for Mrs. Milgaard having been put through this."
"However, I did nothing
wrong in my opinion and I don't feel I have anything to apologize
for."
In 1970, 16-year-old David Milgaard was sentenced to life imprisonment
for the 1969 murder of 20-year-old Saskatoon nursing aide Gail
Miller.
After 23 years in prison, the
Supreme Court of Canada set aside his conviction. Five years
later he was cleared by DNA evidence and awarded $10 million.
In the same year, Larry Fisher was found guilty of the rape and
stabbing death of Gail Miller.
The public inquiry into those
events opened in Saskatoon on Jan. 17.
Mr. Justice Edward MacCallum
is expected to hear from more than 100 witnesses - including
David Milgaard and Larry Fisher - over the course of a year.
The list of potential witnesses includes former prime ministers
Brian Mulroney and Kim Campbell and former Saskatchewan premier
Roy Romanow.
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Broadcasting Corporation - All Rights Reserved
Fisher unforgettable
for ex-Winnipeg officer
Betty Ann Adam, The
StarPhoenix, Wednesday, September 14, 2005
A Winnipeg police officer said
he never forgot Larry Fisher because of the rarity of serial
rapists, the brutality of Fisher's crimes and the lack of emotion
in his eyes.
Retired investigator Lorne
Huff was the officer who took statements from Fisher in September
1970 about two Winnipeg-area rapes and an indecent assault and
a rape Fisher had committed in Saskatoon.
Twenty years later, when Huff
read about a suggestion by supporters of David Milgaard that
a serial rapist in Saskatoon might have been the real killer
of nursing assistant Gail Miller, Huff remembered Fisher.
"I remember Larry Fisher.
He was someone I would never forget," Huff said Tuesday
at the commission of inquiry into Milgaard's wrongful conviction.
He recalled telling a newspaper reporter that Fisher had "fish
eyes. There was no expression in them."
Huff was struck by similarities
between the rapes Fisher had committed and the circumstances
of Miller's rape and killing. Fisher usually met his victims
on quiet streets, dragged them into alleys and forced them to
undress before raping them.
He sometimes used a knife to
threaten his victims, often struck them and sometimes took some
of their clothing or money.
Huff contacted Milgaard's lawyer,
David Asper, and offered what information he had.
Huff's memory contrasts sharply
with the blank drawn by former Saskatoon Det. Eddy Karst, who
was a main investigator in the Miller case. Karst and a morality
inspector travelled to Winnipeg and took statements from Fisher
about the Saskatoon indecent assault and rape. Months later Fisher
also admitted to two other Saskatoon rapes.
Karst has told the commission
he does not remember the Winnipeg trip or interviewing Fisher.
Detective-sergeants Ray Mackie
and George Reid, Lieut. Joe Penkala and Supt. Jack Wood, also
former Saskatoon police officers, have said they don't remember
learning about Fisher or realizing the rapist they had once suspected
in Miller's death had been caught in Winnipeg.
Four charges against Fisher
were sworn in Saskatoon in December 1970, but Fisher was taken
to court in Regina to plead guilty in December 1971. He was sentenced
to 10 years concurrent with the sentence he was already serving
for the Winnipeg rapes.
Milgaard's supporters have
alleged that Saskatoon police deliberately suppressed information
about Fisher's rape convictions to avoid embarrassing questions
about his possible involvement in Miller's death.
After retiring from the Winnipeg
police, Huff operated his own investigation and polygraph business.
Under questioning by Milgaard's
lawyer, Hersh Wolch, Huff said Tuesday he would never show a
polygraph candidate upsetting autopsy photographs because they
would affect the polygraph results and render them inconclusive.
That attitude contrasts with
the actions of Calgary polygraph expert Art Roberts, who was
brought to Saskatoon to interview two teenage friends of Milgaard
who maintained he was never out of their company long enough
to have committed the crime.
Roberts showed Nichol John
the blood-stained nurse's dress Miller was wearing. Immediately
after seeing the dress, John changed her story and said she remembered
seeing Milgaard stab a woman.
John signed a statement to
that effect but never repeated it in court, nor since.
Roberts did not conduct a polygraph
on John.
Fisher is expected to testify
at the inquiry next week.
© The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon)
2005
Fisher lawyer in dark about
murder
Betty Ann Adam. The
StarPhoenix, September 15, 2005
Serial rapist Larry Fisher's
Winnipeg lawyer says he didn't know anything about the death
of Gail Miller in Saskatoon when he arranged for Fisher's Saskatoon
charges to be dealt with as quickly as possible.
Lawyer Lawrence Greenberg's
main goal was to ensure the sentence his client received for
pleading guilty to four sexual offences in Saskatoon would run
concurrent to the 13-year term he was already serving for two
rapes in Winnipeg, Greenberg told the inquiry into David Milgaard's
wrongful conviction on Wednesday.
Milgaard's supporters have
alleged Saskatchewan justice officials conspired to suppress
information about Fisher's conviction in the Saskatoon rapes
by avoiding the normal process through the Saskatoon courts and
having the matter dealt with quietly in Regina instead.
They also ask why the serious
Saskatoon offences received more lenient sentences, which resulted
in Fisher receiving no additional prison time beyond the Winnipeg
sentence.
Fisher received two consecutive
sentences of 61/2 years for the 1970 Winnipeg rapes. For three
Saskatoon rapes and one indecent assault, he received three four-year
sentences and one six-month sentence. All were to be served concurrently
with the Winnipeg sentence.
Miller was raped and killed
in January 1969.
Greenberg said he didn't ask
questions when Saskatchewan Crown prosecutors agreed to the best
possible sentence for Fisher.
"I think I got him a good
deal. I may have got him an exceptional deal," Greenberg
said.
Under questioning by Milgaard's
lawyer, Hersh Wolch, Greenberg acknowledged he didn't have any
bargaining chips beyond Fisher's guilty pleas when he asked for
concurrent sentences.
"Why wouldn't he get another
day (beyond the Winnipeg sentence)? Why would (Saskatchewan Crown
prosecutor Serge Kujawa) give him, what we called in the old
days, 'a kiss?' " Wolch asked.
Greenberg said he didn't know
why the prosecutor agreed to his request but said he had done
the best he could for his client.
"It made no never mind"
to Greenberg or Fisher whether the charges were dealt with in
Saskatoon or Regina, Greenberg said.
Greenberg didn't question the
Saskatchewan prosecutor's decision to deal with the matter in
Regina because that was where the people he had been writing
to were located.
Disposing of the charges in
Regina was made possible by the Crown's decision to proceed by
direct indictment instead of the more common consent committal,
the inquiry heard.
Greenberg doesn't remember
if he asked for the direct indictment or if it was suggested
by the Crown.
Normally, an accused would
have to make a first appearance in provincial court in the jurisdiction
of the crime, where the matter would be adjourned a number of
times before a preliminary hearing date was set.
An accused who wanted to plead
guilty could enter a consent committal on the first day of the
preliminary hearing, waiving the hearing and agreeing to move
directly to Court of Queen's Bench, where he could plead guilty
in the higher court.
Greenberg wanted to avoid having
to travel repeatedly to Saskatoon and didn't want to drag out
the process, risking the possibility of the prosecutor changing
his mind about the concurrent sentence.
Greenberg agreed with the Saskatchewan
prosecutor to take a different, faster route: A direct indictment,
which required the signature of the justice minister, allowed
the matter to go to Queen's Bench without going to provincial
court or booking a preliminary hearing.
Defence counsel usually oppose
direct indictments if the client intends to plead not guilty,
but Greenberg said a preliminary hearing offered no benefit to
Fisher.
In a November 1971 letter to
then-premier Allan Blakeney, who was the acting attorney general
in Roy Romanow's absence, Kujawa requested the direct indictment.
Fisher never mentioned Gail
Miller or a murder and Greenberg had no reason to question Fisher's
desire to have the matters dealt with quickly, he said.
Greenberg added he never spoke
with any Saskatoon police about the disposition of the charges
and can't remember any discussion with Saskatoon Crown prosecutor
Bobs Caldwell.
© The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon) 2005
Killer to take stand at
Milgaard inquiry
Canadian Press, September
19, 2005
SASKATOON -- The man whose
deviant rape and murder of a nursing aide in 1969 set off a chain
of events that robbed David Milgaard of 23 years of his life
will be on a witness stand in Saskatoon this week.
Larry Fisher will face questions
about the murder of Gail Miller at a public inquiry tasked with
finding out why Milgaard was wrongly convicted and jailed for
the crime.
Fisher's testimony could be
key, not only because he was the person that was actually convicted
of the murder, but because he attacked several other women in
Saskatoon both before and after Miller was killed.
Fisher, however, was not linked
to those crimes until after Milgaard was already convicted. The
Milgaard family maintains that investigators kept Fisher's convictions
quiet so as to not cast doubt on the case they had already made
against Milgaard.
Milgaard's mother, Joyce, said
she hopes Fisher's testimony will somehow lend credence to her
long-held theory.
"I think it would be a
wonderful opportunity for Larry Fisher to turn out to be a hero,"
she said in an interview with The Canadian Press.
But, she adds that she's not
expecting that to happen.
Fisher is the 91st witness
to either testify or have previous statements read into the record
at the $8-million inquiry, which began sitting in January. Justice
Edward MacCallum is expecting to hear from about 50 witnesses
still.
"Larry Fisher has relevant
evidence to give on a number of different subject matters,"
said Doug Hodson, the lawyer who acts on behalf of the inquiry.
"He is the person who
has been convicted of the rape and murder of Gail Miller, which
is an important part of our inquiry."
Special arrangements have been
made to have Fisher brought in from the prison in B.C. where
he is serving a life sentence for Miller's murder. He will wear
shackles and be accompanied by two RCMP officers.
It will be the second time
that Fisher, 56, has been on the stand to face questions about
Miller's murder.
The first time was in 1992,
when the Supreme Court reviewed Milgaard's conviction after a
very public campaign by his mother to have him freed.
By that time, Milgaard's family had raised questions about Fisher's
possible involvement in Miller's murder, questions backed by
Fisher's ex-wife Linda, who said she had suspicions about her
former husband.
Fisher denied his involvement
at that time. Still the Supreme Court ruled there was enough
doubt surrounding Milgaard's conviction that he should be released
from prison.
It wasn't until 1997 that Fisher
was conclusively linked to Miller's murder through DNA tests
done at a lab in Britain.
He was convicted on the strength
of that evidence at his trial in 1999 and has been behind bars
ever since.
The inquiry has already heard
from police officers whose records from the time indicate the
serial rapist operating in Saskatoon at around the time Miller
was killed could also be responsible for the murder.
But police focused on Milgaard
after a friend came forward saying he saw blood on his clothes
the morning of the murder.
Milgaard was a 16-year-old
hippie passing through town on a road trip with three other friends
that morning. The inquiry has heard how, after several interviews
with police, each of the friends began to implicate Milgaard.
Their testimony, which has
since been either recanted or never repeated, led to Milgaard
being charged and convicted.
Joyce Milgaard has been at
the inquiry almost every day and said it's been tough re-living
the case.
She said it's been particularly
hard watching investigators justify their actions at the time.
"It's been a very difficult
time being here and hearing all the 'I did nothing wrong,' because
hopefully the inquiry is supposed to pull out what went wrong
so it wouldn't happen to others," Milgaard said.
"The way it is turning
out, it's like nobody did anything wrong and that is not what
we need to hear. We need to hear what went wrong."
MacCallum cannot find criminal
or civil fault with his findings, but he will be able to make
recommendations to prevent similar mistakes from happening in
the future.
Joyce Milgaard will get a chance
to take the stand herself at some point as the inquiry wraps
up. So will her son, although Joyce said David wants nothing
to do with the hearings.
"He doesn't - want to
know anything about it," she said. "Why put him through
more?"
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Chronology
(CP) - Larry Fisher's involvement
in Gail Miller's murder and the subsequent wrongful conviction
of David Milgaard (names of rape victims are protected by a publication
ban):
Oct. 21, 1968: Victim 1 is raped by Fisher in a residential area
near downtown Saskatoon around 10:30 p.m.
Nov. 13, 1968: Victim 2 is raped by Fisher in the same area in
the early evening.
Nov. 29, 1968: Victim 3 is indecently assaulted by Fisher near
the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon around 9:30 p.m.
Jan. 31, 1969: Gail Miller is raped and murdered in the area
near where Victim 1 and 2 were attacked at around 6:45 a.m.
Jan. 31, 1970: David Milgaard is convicted of Miller's murder.
Feb. 21, 1970: Victim 4 is raped by Fisher near where Miller
was murdered at around 9 p.m.
July 1970: Fisher goes to work in Fort Garry, Man.
Aug. 2, 1970: Victim 5 is raped by Fisher in Fort Garry.
Sept. 19, 1970: Fisher is arrested while raping Victim 6 in Fort
Garry. He confesses and later pleads guilty to the two Manitoba
attacks. He also mentions attacking women in Saskatoon.
Oct. 22, 1970: One of the lead detectives involved in the Miller
investigation travels to Winnipeg to interview Fisher, who admits
to attacking victims 3 and 4. Fisher is eventually charged with
all four attacks in Saskatoon.
Dec. 21, 1971: Fisher is transferred back to Saskatchewan where
he pleads guilty to all the attacks in a Regina court, not in
Saskatoon.
Jan. 26, 1980: Fisher is released from prison. Two months later
he is arrested for raping and nearly killing a woman in North
Battleford, Sask. He is sent back to prison on an attempted murder
charge.
Aug. 28, 1980: Fisher's ex-wife Linda goes to police with her
suspicions surrounding Fisher possibly killing Miller. The investigation
is not re-opened.
Jan. 16, 1992: Milgaard's conviction is reviewed by the Supreme
Court. By this time, Milgaard's lawyers have publicly raised
questions about Fisher. Fisher testifies and denies involvement
in Miller's murder. He volunteers DNA, but experts conclude that
no conclusive results can be obtained from Miller's clothing.
Still, Milgaard is freed on the grounds there is enough reasonable
doubt to question his conviction.
July 18, 1997: A new round of DNA testing, done in Britain, clears
Milgaard and points to Fisher. Fisher, who finished serving his
time for the other attacks in 1994, is arrested and charged.
Nov. 22, 1999: Fisher is convicted of Miller's murder on the
strength of the DNA evidence. His subsequent appeals are denied.
© The Canadian Press 2005
Fisher to take the stand
today
Betty Ann Adam, Saskatchewan News Network,Monday, September
19, 2005
SASKATOON -- Larry Fisher,
who allowed David Milgaard to suffer 23 years in prison for Fisher's
worst crime, today will face the commission of inquiry looking
into the wrongful conviction.
Fisher will have to answer
questions about his activities on the day he killed 20-year-old
nursing assistant Gail Miller, when he appears at the hearing
in a crowded hotel meeting room less than two kilometres from
the alley where Miller's body was found on a bitterly cold morning
in January 1969.
Fisher, 56, is likely to be
asked for his perspective on events recounted by others so far
during the inquiry, which began in January.
Evidence has been heard that
Fisher and Miller caught the same 7 a.m. bus at 20th Street and
Avenue O as she headed to her job at City Hospital and he to
the university campus where he was working on construction of
the new Education building.
The bus driver has said a regular
rider, who wore a hard hat, didn't ride the bus on the day of
the murder. Police investigators who followed that lead were
misdirected to another rider, who eventually was eliminated as
a suspect. They failed to recognize the significance of Fisher's
hard hat when they spoke with him at the bus stop on the Monday
morning after the Friday murder.
A woman sexually assaulted
by Fisher has said he wore a hard hat when he attacked her; another
said she remembered his orange work boots.
In 1980, Fisher's ex-wife,
Linda, told the police she had accused him of the murder during
an argument, causing him to fall silent and look guilty. Another
witness has said he heard through mutual friends that Linda had
said Fisher came home that morning with blood on his clothing.
Fisher also is likely to be
asked about his admission of having groped five or six young,
female strangers on the streets in Winnipeg in 1970.
A Winnipeg police officer has
said Fisher told him about those offences but that the police
had not received complaints from the women involved. The officer
passed the information on to Saskatoon police who went to Winnipeg
to interview Fisher.
The Miller murder file contained
a complaint from a young Saskatoon woman on the day of the murder,
who was approached by a stranger a few blocks from the murder
scene. He ran his hands up and down her thighs before running
away. Years later, that woman recognized Fisher as her assailant
when she saw his photograph in a Toronto newspaper, she told
the inquiry.
Fisher will be spared having
to describe the three rapes and an attempted rape he committed
in Saskatoon before Miller's death and after Milgaard was convicted
of the murder, commissioner Justice Edward MacCallum ruled last
week.
Fisher's movements and statements
on Jan. 31, 1969, are said to have been overlooked or ignored
by police and so fall within the commission's mandate to examine
the death investigation, the wrongful prosecution of Milgaard
and whether the case should have been reopened when new information
came to light, MacCallum ruled.
Parties to the commission may
ask Fisher about his movements until Milgaard's Jan. 31, 1970,
conviction.
As for Fisher's activities
after the conviction, parties with standing must stick to questions
about the activities which police and justice officials were
aware of and which were relevant to the re-opening of the investigation,
MacCallum said.
Fisher's other sexual assaults are relevant because of allegations
that the Milgaard investigation should not have been concluded
nor his prosecution proceeded with until the common perpetrator
theory had been eliminated, MacCallum said.
However, the circumstances
of those assaults are known. They were outlined in a 1971 letter
from Saskatoon's deputy chief of police to the deputy attorney
general. Fisher pleaded guilty to them in Regina on Dec. 21,
1971.
Details of the assaults have been reviewed at the inquiry through
victim statements, police reports and their testimony at Fisher's
murder trial and at this inquiry.
Fisher dragged his victims
into back alleys, forced them to remove their clothing and raped
them. He threatened some of them with a knife and sometimes took
articles of clothing or money.
- A 22-year-old was raped near 18th Street between avenues G
and H shortly after 10:30 p.m. Oct. 21, 1968.
- A 17-year-old was raped in the early evening Nov. 13, 1968,
near 18th Street between avenues E and F.
- A 19-year-old was dragged into an alley near Wiggins Avenue
and Temperance Street and told to undress. Fisher was scared
off by a car that drove into the alley, preventing a rape.
- On Feb. 21, 1970, a 17-year-old was raped in a yard in the
200 block of Avenue V South around 9 p.m.
The inquiry has also heard
similar details about two rapes Fisher committed in Winnipeg
on Aug. 2 and Sept. 19, 1970.
He was caught during the last
of those assaults. He later pleaded guilty and was sentenced
to 13 years in prison. After pleading guilty in Saskatchewan,
he was sentenced to four years for each of the three rapes and
six months for the attempted rape. All of those were to be served
concurrently to each other and to the 13-year term, resulting
in no extra prison time.
Fisher was granted parole in
January 1980. Three months later, he raped a woman in North Battleford,
stabbing and slashing her in the process.
He was quickly arrested and in June of that year, was convicted
and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
It was two months later that
his ex-wife went to the Saskatoon police station in the middle
of the night and told them she suspected Fisher in Miller's death.
The information was never acted upon.
Fisher was released in May
1994 and remained free until July 1997, when he was arrested
in Calgary after new DNA tests implicated him in Miller's murder.
He was convicted in November 1999 after a six-week jury trial
in Yorkton and was sentenced to life in prison. His appeal to
the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal was dismissed in 2003 and he
was denied leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada in
August 2004.
CanWest News Service© The Leader-Post (Regina) 2005
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