The B.C. Court of Appeal has quashed the conviction of a British Columbia woman jailed for the 2011 death of a child in her care.
The ruling released Wednesday called Tammy Bouvette’s conviction for criminal negligence causing death “the product of a miscarriage of justice,” and ordered a stay of proceedings because retrying her case would be an “abuse of process.”
Bouvette, 39, was originally charged with second-degree murder in the death of 19-month-old Iyanna Teeple in Cranbrook, B.C.
The Court of Appeal noted that she pleaded guilty in 2013 to the lesser charge without the Crown disclosing it had evidence that raised
