Lawyer argues for third trial in death of Cindy Gladue

The Alberta Court of Appeal is hearing arguments that an Ontario truck driver should be tried for a third time in the 2011 death of an Indigenous woman.

Bradley Barton was sentenced to 121/2 years in July 2021 for manslaughter in the death of Cindy Gladue, a Métis and Cree woman who bled to death in a bathtub at the Yellowhead Inn in Edmonton.

Barton's lawyer, Peter Sankoff, says the exclusion of evidence and the question of consent should warrant a new trial.

The Crown filed its own appeal following Barton's second trial in 2021, calling the sentence “demonstrably unfit.”

A jury found Barton not guilty in 2015 of first-degree murder in the death of Gladue's death.

That decision sparked rallies and calls for justice for Indigenous women across the country.