Lawyers for two sisters who have spent nearly 30 years in prison for what they say are wrongful murder convictions told a bail hearing the women are victims of systemic racism in the justice system and false confessions.
Odelia and Nerissa Quewezance were convicted of second-degree murder in the 1993 stabbing death of 70-year-old Anthony Dolff near Kamsack, Sask.
They were two young Indigenous women and their vulnerability in the situation was clear, Lockyear said. He questioned the conditions in which the women would have made the comments and referred to the well-known U.S. case of the Central Park Five, in which Black and Latino youths were exonerated after the court found false confessions led to their convictions.
Odelia Quewezance turned 51 on Wednesday and said that between her time in prison and residential school, she has spent most of her life confined."I'm praying to be free so I can live my life now." Odelia Quewezance received day parole last year with strict conditions. She is currently staying at the YWCA in Regina. Nerissa Quewezance's parole was denied and she has remained behind bars in Fraser Valley Institution for Women in British Columbia.
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