Friends of Cindy Gladue, Lisa Weber,(left) Brandy Poorman (middle) and Kari Thomason (right) talk to the media after Bradley Barton was found guilty of manslaughter for the killing of Gladue in an Edmonton hotel room nearly a decade ago. Photo by Greg Southam /Postmedia
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EDMONTON Lawyers say the retrial of a man to be sentenced next week for killing a woman in his hotel room 10 years ago is an example of how cases involving missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls should be handled.
They say Bradley Barton’s second trial was an improvement over the first, because instructions to jurors included reminders of the traumatic effects of colonialism and encouraged them not to judge the woman’s heritage and lifestyle.