SASKATOON – A bail hearing for Nerissa Quewezance has been set for May 16 in Saskatoon Provincial Court. Nerissa and her sister Odelia Quewezance’s second-degree murder convictions are under review by the federal Justice Department as a possible miscarriage of justice
On April 13, Nerissa Quewezance was arrested in Saskatoon for allegedly breaching her bail conditions.
In March 2023, Nerissa and Odelia Quewezance were granted bail by a Yorkton Court of King’s Bench judge pending the federal Justice Department review of their 1994 second-degree murder convictions.
A male youth confessed to the 1993 murder of Kamsack-area farmer Anthony Joseph Dolff. The young offender, who testified that he committed the murder alone, was sentenced to four-years in prison. Nerissa and Odelia Quewezance, of Keeseekoose First Nation, were sentenced to life in prison.
If Federal Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Arif Virani, orders a new trial, then the case will go back to Yorkton Court of King's Bench for a possible new trial. If Virani orders an appeal, then it would go to the Court of Appeal.
Transcripts of the 1994 trial reveal that Dolff knew the sisters from St. Phillip's residential school where he worked and Odelia and Nerissa attended as students.
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