Hersh Wolch, lawyer who represented David Milgaard, dead at 77

CALGARY — A lawyer who represented some of Canada’s most high-profile wrongfully convicted people, including David Milgaard, has died.
Hersh Wolch was 77.
The Calgary law office where he worked with his son Gavin confirmed Wolch’s death on Monday.
Wolch was born in Winnipeg and was a Crown prosecutor in Manitoba after receiving his law degree in 1965.
He rose to prominence in the 1990s for his work on Milgaard’s case.
Milgaard spent 23 years in prison for the 1969 rape an