Justice officials forced to testify

Justice Edward MacCallum has ruled that asking federal officials why they made decisions in the Milgaard case, and what prompted them to do so, falls within the mandate of the inquiry.

This is a victory for Milgaard supporters and a setback for Justice officials who had argued that there should be a limit to the amount of questions that they had to answer.

Next week, the only witness will be a federal justice department lawyer who investigated and then rejected David Milgaard's claim of wrongful conviction in the 1980s.

Sigrid Mac