A judge has granted bail for Odelia Quewezance 51, and her Nerissa, 48, after being in prison for 30 years for a 1993 murder in Saskatchewan.. quewezance sisters .On Monday in the Yorkton Court of King’s Bench, Justice Donald Layh ruled the sisters bail request was not “frivolous,” nor were they a flight risk, and posed no danger to the public..The sisters are from the Keeseekoose First Nation and were convicted of second-degree murder in the death of Anthony Dole, a farmer in the Kamsack area, in 1994..A young offender admitted to murdering Dole by himself and was sentenced to prison for four years..READ MORE Jailed 30 years for murder — two indigenous sisters proclaiming their innocence get bail hearing.Both sisters claimed to be innocent since being arrested in connection to the murder investigation..Innocence Canada (IC) Lawyer James Lockyer tried to have the Saskatchewan government reduce the second-degree murder convictions to manslaughter, but the government denied the request..High-profile advocates like Senator Kim Pate, Congress of Aboriginal Peoples Kim Beaudin, the late David Milgaard, and IC have spoken out to support the sisters..Justices Harry LaForme and Juanita Westmoreland-Traore asked the Parole Board of Canada to release them as it is a possible miscarriage of justice..Federal Justice Minister David Lametti appointed the two justices in 2021 to create the Criminal Case Review Commission to review wrongful convictions, which bill C-40 created, known as David and Joyce Milgaard’s Law..Lametti’s office is reviewing the sisters 1994 second-degree murder convictions as a possible miscarriage of justice.
