Editing David Milgaard (section)

=== Exoneration ===
Milgaard's lawyers and his mother, Joyce, worked for many years on clearing his name.<ref name="Macleans1999" /><ref>{{cite news |first=Lisa |last=Joy |title=Christmas 1980 Joyce Milgaard fights for son's innocence, commission for wrongful convictions only now being created |website=sasktoday.ca |date=December 26, 2021 |url=https://www.sasktoday.ca/north/local-news/christmas-1980-joyce-milgaard-fights-for-sons-innocence-commission-for-wrongful-convictions-only-now-being-created-4900181 |access-date=May 22, 2022}}</ref><ref name="Macleans1992">{{cite news |last1=Jenish |first1=D’arcy |title=The Survivors -- David Milgaard gets a new start on life |url=https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1992/4/27/the-survivors |access-date=May 22, 2022 |work=[[Maclean's]] |date=April 27, 1992 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522104730/https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1992/4/27/the-survivors |archive-date=May 22, 2022 |url-status=dead}}</ref> A formal application for appeal was completed in 1988, but was not considered until 1991<ref name="CBC-Timeline" /> when the federal government submitted a [[reference question]] to the Supreme Court of Canada, which recommended Milgaard's conviction be set aside. [[Kim Campbell]], the [[Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada|federal minister of justice]] at the time, ordered that pursuant to section 690 of the ''[[Criminal Code (Canada)|Criminal Code]]'', a new trial be held on the murder charge against Milgaard. However, the government of Saskatchewan announced it would not do so, instead entering a [[stay of proceedings]] in the case against Milgaard, releasing him from prison on April 16, 1992.<ref>{{cite news |title=Wrongfully convicted David Milgaard released from prison 25 years ago  |date=April 16, 2017 |work=[[CBC News]] |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/david-milgaard-25th-anniversary-of-release-1.4071825 |access-date=January 21, 2020 |quote=Milgaard was released from prison, after a court ruled he should have a new trial in the 1969 murder of Saskatoon nursing aide Gail Miller}}</ref>

On July 18, 1997, a [[DNA]] laboratory in the United Kingdom released a report confirming that semen samples on the victim's clothing did not originate from Milgaard, effectively exonerating Milgaard of the crime.<ref name="Macleans1999"/>

On May 17, 1999, the governments of Canada and Saskatchewan announced that a settlement had been reached with Milgaard, and that he would be paid C$10&nbsp;million compensation for pain and suffering, lost wages and legal fees.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://esask.uregina.ca/entry/milgaard_david_1952-.jsp |title=Milgaard, David |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan |publisher=[[University of Regina]] |access-date= May 16, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Milgaard will get $10 million compensation |work=[[CBC News]] |date=May 17, 2000 |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/milgaard-will-get-10-million-compensation-1.174896 |access-date=February 26, 2016}}</ref><!-- source for most of this paragraph: the timeline of the Milgaard Inquiry at http://www.milgaardinquiry.ca/pubdocs/PolicePhase-OpeningRemarks-05302005/324945.pdf -->