A bail hearing is scheduled today in Saskatchewan for two sisters who have spent nearly 30 years in prison for what they say are wrongful murder convictions.
Odelia and Nerissa Quewezance were convicted in 1994 of second-degree murder in the death of 70-year-old farmer Anthony Joseph Dolff, near Kamsack, Sask.
Defence lawyers are asking for the sisters to get a conditional release while their case is undergoing a federal conviction review.
The federal Justice Department started the review last year, saying there may be a reasonable basis to conclude there was a miscarriage of justice.
The First Nations sisters have always maintained their innocence and another person, who was a youth at the time, confessed to the killing….