[news] Secwepemc Defenders Win Right to Appeal Conviction for 2001 Blockade

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Darah Hansen | Vancouver Sun | March 31, 2007

Kamloops | A mother and daughter, members of the Secwepemc First Nation in B.C.'s southern Interior, have won the right to appeal their 2002 convictions for taking part in a roadblock on the Sun Peaks Road near Kamloops one year earlier.

Browne said the ruling appears to be part of a trend by the courts recognizing aboriginal perspective in law -- "that when first nations people stand on a road or protest mining or development, that they may have some legal basis to do so."

  


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