CAP calls for immediate release of Indigenous sisters they say were wrongfully convicted of murder – Battlefords News-Optimist
May 18, 2021
The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) is calling on the federal government to intervene and release two Saskatchewan sisters who have served almost three decades in prison for a murder they say they didn’t commit.
Odelia and Nerissa Quewezance were sentenced to life on second-degree murder charges in 1994 for the death of Anthony Joseph Dolff from Kamsack. A young offender, who was 15 at the time, was also convicted.
“Despite a lack of physical evidence, and the testimony of (the young offender) stating he was responsible for the murder in 1993, Odelia and Narrisa have remained in prison,” said CAP National Vice-Chief Kim Beaudin during a Zoom media conference May 18.
“While (the young offender) received a four-year sentence for second-degree murder, the two women were handed life-sentences.”
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