Mar 25, 2025 | Updates
It is with great sadness that I must share the passing of Billy Wine, not only a long-time personal friend, but a friend to the wrongly convicted and the organization. Billy was one of a kind! I was honoured and blest that he was my dear and loyal friend. Please see a...
Mar 7, 2025 | Updates
From: Department of Justice Canada News release March 7, 2025 – Ottawa, Ontario – Department of Justice Canada Today, the Honourable Arif Virani, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, announced that important measures to establish the Miscarriage of...
Feb 26, 2025 | Updates
Wednesday, February 26, 2025 JUSTICE MINISTER ARIF VIRANI ANNOUNCES THAT HE HAS QUASHED THE SECOND DEGREE MURDER CONVICTION OF ROY ALLAN SOBOTIAK AFTER 35 YEARS. Today, at noon, Minister of Justice Arif Virani announced that he was exercising his powers under the...
Jan 5, 2024 | Updates
This afternoon Robert (Bobby) Mailman and Walter (Wally) Gillespie were acquitted by Chief Justice Tracey DeWare of the King’s Bench Court in Saint John, New Brunswick, 40 years after they were wrongly convicted in the murder of George Leeman. On November 30, 1983,...
Oct 13, 2023 | Updates
More than 49 years ago on March 5, 1974, Clarence Woodhouse, a young Indigenous man, and a member of the Pinaymootang First Nation on the Fairford Indian Reserve in Manitoba, was convicted of the murder of Mr. Ting Fong Chan in Winnipeg, a crime he did not commit. On...
