Walter Gillespie

• Wrongfully convicted N.B. man worries he will die before police review

  Saint John police spokesman Staff Sergeant Matt Weir said last week he has no timeline for when the findings will be made public.

  Canada

  Jan 18, 2025
  
• Saint John police review up in the air a year after two men exonerated in murder case

  More than a year after the police chief announced a review of his officers' conduct in the case of two men wrongfully convicted of murder, there is no sign of the promised report.

  Canada

  Jan 17, 2025
  
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• Wrongfully convicted New Brunswick man dies months after exoneration

  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.

  Canada

  Apr 20, 2024
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• N.B. government in compensation talk with lawyers for two wrongfully convicted men

  Mailman, 76, and Gillespie, 80, were acquitted on Jan. 4 by New Brunswick Court of King's Bench Chief Justice Tracey DeWare, who said the justice system had failed the men.

  Canada

  Feb 10, 2024
• Two N.B. men waiting for compensation a month after being cleared of 1983 murder

  Advocates for the men say their letters to the government have gone unanswered, and Mailman, who was diagnosed with cancer in November, fears he will die before the province acts.

  Canada

  Feb 1, 2024
• Police chief in N.B. orders review of force’s involvement in wrongful murder conviction

  Walter Gillespie, 80, and Robert Mailman, 43, were convicted in the Nov. 30, 1983, killing of George Gilman Leeman. They were formally acquitted this month.

  Canada

  Jan 12, 2024
• New Brunswick judge apologizes to men for ‘miscarriage of justice’

  The chief justice of New Brunswick's Court of King's Bench is apologizing to two men who served lengthy prison sentences for a murder they didn't commit.

  Canada

  Jan 5, 2024
• N.B. men won’t face retrial after decades-old murder convictions quashed

  Two New Brunswick men whose 1984 murder convictions were recently overturned by the federal justice minister have been formally declared not guilty.

  Canada

  Jan 4, 2024
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• 2 N.B. men to learn if they will be tried again after 1984 murder convictions quashed

  A hearing is set for Thursday involving Robert Mailman and Walter Gillespie at the Court of King's Bench, during which they will be represented by lawyers with Innocence Canada.

  Canada

  Jan 2, 2024