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Ottawa orders post-mortem appeal for Manitoba man in killing of restaurant worker
The federal government ordered the first post-mortem appeal under the Criminal Code after three other men were exonerated for wrongful convictions linked to systemic discrimination.
- Canada's justice minister has ordered a review of a First Nations man's 1974 conviction for a 1973 killing, years after his death.
- The review found reasonable grounds to conclude a miscarriage of justice likely occurred in Russell Woodhouse's conviction.
- The federal government's decision allows new information to be considered and gives Woodhouse's family another chance to appeal his conviction.
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