New registry shows Indigenous Peoples largely shut out of wrongful conviction cases
Reporting by APTN News helped inspire new Canadian Registry of Wrongful Convictions
Connie Oakes
Saulteaux woman says she was wrongfully convicted, trying to clear her name after 25 years in prison
APTN Investigates: A Life Sentence – Watch part 2 here. A Saulteaux woman says…
Alberta won’t call inquiry, and there will be no further review into two women wrongfully convicted of murder
Alberta’s Department of Justice says it will not call an inquiry into how two women, Connie Oakes and Wendy Scott were wrongfully convicted for the 2011 murder of Casey Armstrong in Medicine Hat, Alta.
Connie Oakes says ‘it all went sideways,’ wants sentencing circle to determine punishment
Connie Oakes couldn’t find a job when she walked out of prison last April after…
Connie Oakes pleads guilty to charges a year after wrongful murder conviction case
Jorge Barrera APTN National News Connie Oakes, a Cree woman who walked out of prison…
Cree woman wrongly convicted of murder finds herself back behind bars
Oakes, who is from Nekaneet First Nation, was set free by Alberta’s Court of Queen’s Bench on April 29, 2016, after having a second-degree murder charge stayed.
Alberta Crown drops retrial of woman with IQ of 50 wrongfully convicted of murder
(( Wendy Scott in a Facebook photo posted in 2008. The Crown stayed a murder…
APTN Investigates: Quest for innocence, the Connie Oakes story
Connie Oakes and a quest for Innocence