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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...
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...
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...
It is with heavy hearts and profound sadness that we announce the passing of Glen Assoun. Glen passed away on June 14th, leaving behind cherished memories, a legacy of love and music, and an enduring...
On Monday, June 12th, 27 years after his wrongful conviction on manslaughter, Bernard Doyle finally heard the news that he had been praying and hoping from when the Ontario Court of Appeal overturned his conviction...
INNOCENCE CANADA PRESS RELEASE – December 19, 2022 WADE SKIFFINGTON – MINISTER OF JUSTICE CONCLUDES A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE LIKELY OCCURRED IN HIS SECOND-DEGREE MURDER CONVICTION FOR THE MURDER OF WANDA MARTIN IN RICHMOND, B.C....
Jacques Delisle Receives a Stay of Proceedings – Quebec Director of Criminal and Penal Prosecutions Appeals the Decision On April 8th, 2022, the Quebec Superior Court entered a stay of proceedings on Mr. Jacques Delisle’s...
On April 7, 2021, Federal Minister of Justice David Lametti, announced his decision to order a retrial in the case of Jacques Delisle. Read Innocence Canada’s response to this news here, in English or French.
Read Innocence Canada’s press release following Federal Minister of Justice David Lametti’s announcement on March 31, 2021, on the appointment of Justice Harry LaForme and Justice Westmoreland-Traoré to lead consultations on the structure of Canada’s wrongful...
A federal plan to create an independent body to seek out and correct possible wrongful convictions represents the realization of a 25 year-dream for the innocence movement. On December 13, 2019, the Federal Department of...
Innocence Canada Presents: My Name is John Artis Synopsis: The film explores the life of John Artis, who was wrongfully convicted of a triple homicide in 1967 alongside his co-accused, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter. Through a...
“I was devastated, I was just numb. I just stated to the court that ‘I’m officially wrongly convicted as of right now’.” “Because I knew I was innocent.”- Glen Assoun In 1999 Glen Assoun was convicted...