‘On death row.’ Wrongfully convicted N.B. man has mixed feelings since exoneration

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — Robert Mailman has a problem he never thought he’d have. He has to buy Christmas presents this year.
The 76-year-old was exonerated on Jan. 4 of a 1983 murder for which he and his friend Walter Gillespie served lengthy prison terms. At the time, his legal team said he had been diagnosed with terminal liver cancer and been given only months to live.
Nearly a year after New Brunswick Court of King’s Bench Chief Justice Tracey DeWare proclaimed him and Gillespie