WINNIPEG –
A Manitoba judge acquitted a provincial corrections officer of all charges in the death of an Indigenous inmate following a violent stand-off in the jail more than three years ago.
Robert Jeffrey Morden, a corrections officer in Manitoba, was charged with criminal negligence causing death and failing to provide the necessities of life. He had pleaded not guilty.
On Friday, a provincial judge acquitted Morden of all charges.
The charges were in connection to the death of 45-year-old William Ahmo, an Indigenous inmate at the Headingley Correctional Centre.
Ahmo died days after an hours-long stand-off with the jail’s guards in February 2021. Morden had been leading the tactical emergency response team that day.
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