Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 30, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 Winnipeg free july Rush is on to justify actions in jailing Molgaard Case one of the greatest miscarriages of Justice in Canada by Dan Lett National reporter 0 Ottawa now that David Molgaard is free and his name has been the race is for various defence lawyers and the next few months represent a Desper ate Rush to justify their actions in what is one of the greatest miscarriages of Justice in there Are Many trying to blur their involvement in this especially with the possibility that the Saskatchewan government will hold an inquiry into the arrest and prose cution of if Justice is finally there will be a number of highly placed officials in Canadas Justice system seeking Early retire who then was responsible for keeping Molgaard in jail and if can take credit for having helped free him the Bald facts of the Case for cred it or blame Are such Molgaard was freed thanks to the tireless efforts of his and through the spectacular work of Seattle private investigator Paul Henderson and James head of the renowned Centurion ministries of Prince new a nonprofit ministry that works to free the wrongfully the length of Milga Ards incarceration was not just the product of his original the 23 years he spent in prison was As much a result of systemic which is still apparent Over a five year the Saskatchewan the Federal Justice department and the Royal Canadian mounted police were Given new Evi they spent More of their time trying to disprove the evidence than seeing if it exonerated three David Molgaard turned to the Federal Justice depart analysis who then was responsible for keeping Molgaard if can take credit for having helped free him ment and made an application under Section 690 of the criminal code for a ministerial review of his twice he was turned Down even though there was abundant evidence suggesting a miscarriage of this systemic disbelief was ultimately not Defeated by Joyce Mil or by the keen analytical investigation by Centurion min this was a political problem and it required political people to solve in the free press this former prime minister Brian Mulroney made one of the first attempts to claim some of the credit for ending the gridlock at the Federal Justice department and referring the Case to the supreme a historic strategy that ultimately freed Mil Gaard and set the stage for his Exon in an interview with columnist Gordon Mulroney said that after meeting with Joyce Davids outside a Winnipeg hotel on september he was moved to make certain suggestions to then jus Tice minister Kim Campbell and senior Justice department offi i conveyed or told the appropriate people i thought a review of this particular Case was warranted and i wanted appropriate action taken to bring this Mulroney said in his did Brian Mulroney intervene on behalf of Molgaard and ultimately prompt Campbell to order the Case referred to the supreme court there is circumstantial evidence to suggest he probably did play a role in greasing the wheels of the context and timing of the mul Roney Molgaard meeting is critical to understanding the former prime ministers Campbell sent Case to court Mulroney review warranted just seven months before the Campbell denied Milga Ards first 690 she determined that there was not enough new Evi Dence to warrant reopening the Campbell and her staff made this pronouncement despite the fact that several witnesses had the forensic evidence against Molgaard had been discredited and a More Likely suspect had been identified and placed near the scene of the four months before the the Milga Ards presented two vol Umes of evidence compiled by Centurion ministries which clearly showed the strength of the Case against another a serial rapist who stalked his victims in the very neighbourhood in which the body of Gail Miller whom Molgaard had been convicted of murdering was by the time Mulroney met Joyce the Federal Justice department was Well on the Way to considering a second application for in its first five senior Justice department officials who reviewed Milga Ards Case had voted 32 to recommend it not be nine months after Molgaard and Mulroney those same five officials voted again and this time it was 32 in favour of a Campbell subsequently announced that she was referring the Case to the supreme court for a move that would ultimately free did Mulroney Speed up the process or did he in fact intervene and put save up Sefe Tea save 25 save 25 making new All Flost Quality patterns will vary from those 1365 Portage 1436 Mcphillips Selkirk 295 main 7837842 9584150 4828332 827 Dakota Street 740 Nairn Stein cacti 329 main 2568879 6696859 3265711 1 prices guaranteed until August nut All items May be available at All denial May Tell fun fkanchjs1 available Call 18003877311 political pressure on Campbell and the department to reopen the Case it seems unlikely that he tipped the scale in the Justice department but he May very Well have sped up the process when David Molgaard first made an application to have his Case the Justice minister was Joe Many men and women came and went from that portfolio with nary a nod towards Molgaard and the possibility that his claims of innocence were and while it is interesting to speculate about How a former prime minister May have helped free a victim of the Justice it May be More and ultimately More to answer a More troubling question How was it that in late with such Strong evidence suggesting Mil guards innocence and the other mans there could still be two senior Justice officials voting against reopening the Case it is highly advisable that no not even a former prime try to take too much credit for free ing David for almost everyone the Freedom was too too Lack of Money cancels plans for Molgaard film it looks like there wont be a made fort movie about the David Molgaard Story after which came As a sur prise to Derek of Winnipeg Credo entertainment he had assumed it was already in product Credo had Hopes As recently As a month ago of shooting the movie for but when there want a Crew the location was switched to Nova where the provincial government was ready to throw some Money at the not enough a spokesperson from Barna Alper productions in which bought the film rights from the Molgaard family years says telefilm ran out of funding for film productions about a month in other about two weeks before the Story reached a with the Dan test that cleared Molgaard and resulted in the arrest of Larry Mazur was surprised by the but not so maybe it will come he on a similar apparently Mclelland and Stewart is in no hurry to reissue an updated version of when Justice this according to Cec who co wrote the Book on the Molgaard Case with fellow Csc Winnipeg news exec Carl and Joyce Molgaard wants to make something Clear about her sons fight for in All the Media frenzy and one person has been left out who was very and that was my Knight in shining David he believed in he believed in me and he made Hersh Wolch without David be a a a whatever happened Jean Louis Danguy and his wife the former owners of the restaurant Between Are wowing the woo Sandlake set at Gunn Lake Down Minaki Denise is cooking and Jean Louis is waiting a a a look who provincial judge Murray Sinclair returned last week from a trip to England where he had been invited to speak at Cam Bridge University As part of the Canadian bar associations annual lecture the topic was aboriginal Justice in the Canadian and the audience included a few judges from the supreme court of which is where Murray sin Clair is headed one if you ask me a a a a water Hazard no real of the rat River Golf wants everyone to know Gordon Sinclair that the course Down Pierr Joly Way opens again for a while we were questioning whether we could even be Able to open at All this season because of the cure friends and staff have worked harder than we could Ever have hoped and our full 18 is now set to in told the course is in Good All things so get out there and help them a a a my for the Roy Romanow was not the attorney general at the time David Molgaard was arrested and subsequently found guilty in he was attorney Gen eral from 1971 to 1982 As one of the subjects of a 1994 ramp investigation into the handling of the it found no criminal wrong doing by the Saskatoon police or anyone Elsein the Justice a a a another helping of hum ble in a column last i related the Story of How i approached former bomber Quarter Back Ken Ploen at a dinner one night and Gushin Gly told him that he had been my boyhood at which Point he thank a Reader or 10 called to Point out that i got i spelled my heros name its not and its q a a the last University of Winnipeg political science prof Allan Mills called he was standing with Joyce Molgaard when she met Brian Mulroney Back in the fall of and when he read Days Story about the former prime ministers recollections of the this quote stood there was just something so for Lorn 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