04-07-2017 02:00 via edmontonjournal.com

Advocacy group that intervened in Cindy Gladue murder case celebrates overturned acquittal

The ordering of a new trial for a man acquitted in the death of an indigenous women in an Edmonton hotel is being hailed as a victory for an institute that gained legal intervenor status in the case. 
“This is the most important case in my lifetime,” Muriel Stanley Venne, president and founder of the Institute for the Advancement of Aboriginal Women, said Monday.
In a strongly worded decision released Friday, the Court of Appeal of Alberta overturned a jury’s 2015 acquitta
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