A Cree woman from Nekaneet First Nation, Sask., is suing the Alberta government, a Crown prosecutor and Medicine Hat police for $1 million over her wrongful conviction for murder. Connie Oakes was one of two women convicted for the May 2011 murder of Medicine Hat resident Casey Armstrong. Oakes and her co-accused Wendy Scott had their second-degree murder convictions overturned by the Alberta Court of Appeal in 2016. The claim alleges Medicine Hat police investigators were "negligent" in an investigation compromised by "tunnel vision." Casey Armstrong was found dead in the bathtub of his Medicine Hat, Alta., trailer in May 2011.

Source: CBC News May 01, 2018 00:11 UTC