Nerissa and Odelia Quewezance’s conviction is currently under review by the federal Minister of Justice for a possible miscarriage of justice
A Saskatchewan judge had ordered the release of Nerissa and Odelia Quewezance, Salteaux sisters who have spent 30 years in custody for a murder they say they didn’t commit.
The sisters grew up in Keeseekoose First Nation in Saskatchewan and attended residential school, where they faced physical, emotional and sexual abuse. In 1993, police charged Nerissa, then 18, and Odelia, then 21, with second-degree murder for the violent stabbing death of 70-year-old Joseph Dolff, in his farmouse near Kamsack, Sask.
Since then, advocates for the wrongfully convicted have questioned their continued imprisonment. In a 2020 APTN documentary that brought national attention to the case, the sisters’ cousin confessed once again to the murder and said the women should go free. Since 2003, both sisters had been granted parole on several occasions, but repeatedly breached. Justice Layh called their parole record “abysmal.”
The court placed the sisters under series of conditions, including keeping a curfew, staying with a surety, attending employment programs, keeping the peace and reporting to a bail officer.
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