David Milgaard, the victim of one of Canada\u0027s most notorious miscarriages of justice, has died. He was 69.
James Lockyer, a Toronto-based lawyer who worked closely on the case and helped found the organization Innocence Canada, confirmed the death after speaking with Milgaard’s sister on Sunday.Milgaard was only 16 when he was charged in the murder of Saskatoon nursing aide Gail Miller, who was raped, stabbed and left to die in the snow in the early morning of Jan. 31, 1969.
“The policies that are keeping them there need to be changed. The wrongful conviction review process is failing all of us miserably.”Milgaard and two friends had been passing through Saskatoon on a road trip when Miller was killed.One of the youngest inmates, the 17-year-old was raped and tried to commit suicide. He was also shot by police during an attempted prison break.
Milgaard was released from prison in 1992 after his mother, who fought tirelessly to clear her son’s name, pushed to get the case heard by the Supreme Court of Canada. The high court threw out Milgaard’s conviction and he was finally exonerated in July 1997 after DNA tests proved that semen found at the crime scene didn’t match his.
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