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David Milgaard (July 7, 1952 – May 15, 2022) was a Canadian man who was wrongfully convicted for the 1969 rape and murder of nursing student Gail Miller in Saskatoon and imprisoned for 23 years. He was eventually released and exonerated.
David Milgaard [48] was convicted of raping and murdering 20-year-old nursing assistant Gail Miller in 1969. When she was found on a snowbank, Milgaard and his friends, Ron Wilson and Nichol John, were picking up their friend, Albert Cadrain.
As of 2024, Innocence Canada has been directly involved in the exoneration of 29 wrongfully convicted individuals, including David Milgaard, Guy Paul Morin, Glen Assoun, and Steven Truscott. [ 20 ] The organization has represented several individuals whose wrongful convictions for homicide were largely the result of flawed conclusions drawn by ...
David Dougherty was convicted in 1993 on charges of abduction and the rape of an 11-year-old girl. After serving over three years in prison, he was acquitted in 1997 after new DNA evidence ruled him out. Compensation of over $800,000 was paid by the New Zealand Government and an apology given for the wrongful conviction.
He is a founding director of the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted (AIDWYC). He has been involved in exposing more than ten wrongful convictions in Canada, including the cases of Guy Paul Morin, David Milgaard, Clayton Johnson and Gregory Parsons. Several of these cases have become the subject of public inquiries.
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Kenneth Nixon went numb the moment he was found guilty in September 2005 for two murders he didn’t commit – a wrongful conviction that saw the then-19-year-old father of two condemned to spend ...
Christine E. Silverberg (born 1949) is a Canadian lawyer who was the first female Chief of the Calgary Police Service [1] and later practiced law alongside Hersh Wolch, who famously won David Milgaard's wrongful conviction case.