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Alberta’s Court of Appeal heard arguments Thursday that a former Ontario truck driver should be tried for a third time in the 2011 death of Cindy Gladue
Bradley Barton, 54, was sentenced to 12 1/2 years for manslaughter in the death of Gladue, a Métis and Cree woman who bled to death in a bathtub at the Yellowhead Inn in Edmonton.
Peter Sankoff, one of Barton’s lawyers, said the exclusion of some evidence and the question of consent should warrant a new trial.
Sankoff said Barton was unlawfully detained for an exceptionally long period of time.
“You try spending
