Bradley Barton was sentenced last month to 12 1/2 years for manslaughter in the death of Cindy Gladue, who bled to death in a bathtub at the Yellowhead Inn in 2011.

In February, a jury convicted 52-year-old Barton, who is from Mississauga, Ont., of manslaughter in the 2011 death of Cindy Gladue.

The case of an Ontario trucker acquitted in the death of an Alberta woman referred to at trial as a "native" and a "prostitute" is to go before the Supreme Court this week in what could set a precedent in Canada's sexual assault laws.