Criminal defence lawyers in the Northwest Territories have collectively written a letter to the wardens at the three main correctional centres in the Northwest Territories – calling for prisoners to be released on temporary absences due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The letter went to the wardens in Fort Smith, Hay…
A young Yellowknife mother has been sentenced to 21 months in jail after she pleaded guilty to robbing two Yellowknife convenience stores – one at knifepoint – and assaulting two jail guards at the Fort Smith correctional centre for women. Cynthia Lafferty, 21, appeared in territorial court Friday by telephone…
A man has been sentenced to four months in jail after he pleaded guilty to assaulting a female Elder at a small house party in Fort Simpson last month and assaulting the two RCMP officers who had come to arrest him Joey Moses, 25, appeared via video in territorial court…
A sentencing hearing in Yellowknife for a star from the reality TV series Ice Road Truckers has been delayed. Arthur Burke, 65, pleaded guilty last month to the rare charge of arson by negligence for accidentally causing an explosion at a downtown Yellowknife apartment in November of 2018. CKLB initially…
An Edmonton man who was sentenced to five years in jail after he was convicted in Yellowknife of possession of crack cocaine for the purpose of trafficking in Fort Providence, has had his appeal of both his conviction and his sentence quashed by the NWT Court of Appeal. That’s despite…
The coronavirus outbreak is affecting courts in the Northwest Territories. Details have been outlined on the NWT Dept. of Justice court schedule website. Supreme Court NWT Supreme Court Chief Justice Charbonneau has given certain directions, effective immediately, regarding Supreme Court proceedings during the coronavirus outbreak. In an advisory, the court…
A Behchoko man has been charged with murder in connection with the death of a man in that Tlicho community last weekend. Colton Migwi, 29, made a brief appearance in Justice of the Peace Court in Yellowknife Friday morning. It comes after RCMP found a man deceased in a residence…
A Yellowknife drug dealer has been found guilty of the relatively rare charge of criminal negligence causing bodily harm for giving the powerful painkiller Fentanyl to a woman who subsequently overdosed. She survived after being treated at Stanton Hospital two days later. Court heard she’d been in a coma-like state…
A man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in connection to a fatal beating outside downtown Yellowknife’s Day Shelter and Sobering Centre last September. Court documents show that 33-year-old Victor Shane Ugyuk pleaded guilty Monday to punching Mark Poodlat in the head and face several times in front of the shelter….
The public won’t hear the verdict for more than four months in a dog attack trial that wrapped up in territorial court in Yellowknife Thursday. But the judge in the case made one thing abundantly clear, city bylaw officers failed in their duty to properly investigate the incident before laying…