Connie Oakes charged with obstruction of justice

By Medicine Hat News on June 6, 2018.

A Medicine Hat woman with a history of legal issues has been charged with obstruction of justice in Saskatchewan.

Maple Creek RCMP say an investigation that began in December 2017 has resulted in the charge against the 53-year-old woman. An RCMP release states Oakes was arrested May 6 and remanded into custody. She is to appear in Regina Provincial Court on June 8.

Oakes successfully appealed her second-degree murder conviction in the May 2011 death of Casey Armstrong. She was found guilty in 2013 by a jury and sentenced to life in prison with no eligibility for parole for 14 years. This decision was overturned in April 2016 by the Court of Appeal. Oakes filed suit in April of this year against the Medicine Hat Police Service and the Crown, alleging their conduct was a “malicious exercise of authority … (and) … constitutes an abuse of authority, was high-handed and malicious, and warrants an award of aggravated and punitive damages.”

In September 2017 Oakes was sentenced to 18 months in jail for aggravated assault, forcible confinement and uttering threats in connection to a stabbing that took place in April 2017 at a Maple Creek residence. An additional 90 days was added to the sentence for an unrelated assault.

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