Verdict to be appealed in death of Cindy Gladue

Alberta Crown will be appealing the not guilty verdict rendered in
the case of Cindy Gladue, an Indigenous woman, mother, and sex-trade
worker whose body was found in a bathtub in a motel in Edmonton four
years ago. On March 18, a jury of nine men and two women acquitted
long-haul truck driver Bradley Barton on a first-degree murder charge.
Gladue died after she received an 11-centimetre injury to her vagina.
Barton’s defence attorney claimed the wound happened during rough sex.
Alberta prosecutors allege the justice made errors in instructing the
jury. First Nations advocates have complained the mostly white, male
jurors were not representative in dealing with a case concerning the
death of an Aboriginal woman.

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