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Gillespie fought for 40 years to prove his innocence but his release finally came after Innocence Canada found that the evidence that convicted him was not credible, and asked the federal justice minister to review his case
FREDERICTON - A New Brunswick man who spent decades fighting a wrongful murder conviction that landed him and a friend behind bars had only a few months to relish his
Innocence Canada, the organization that led the legal fight to exonerate Walter Gillespie and his friend Robert Mailman of their 1984 murder convictions, says Gillespie died Friday in his home in Saint John, N.B.
A wrongfully convicted New Brunswick man who spent decades trying to clear his name before being declared innocent by a judge in January has died at the age of 80.