OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada says an acquittal is the appropriate outcome for a British Columbia woman whose conviction in the drowning death of a toddler was set aside two years ago. Article content

Tammy Bouvette was charged with second-degree murder but pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of criminal negligence causing the bathtub drowning death of a 19-month-old girl she had been babysitting in 2011 in Cranbrook, B.C. Article content

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In April 2023, the B.C. Court of Appeal found the Crown had failed to disclose several items of key evidence to Bouvette’s lawyers, depriving her of the opportunity to make an informed decision about how to plead.

The Court of Appeal called the original conviction “the product of a miscarriage of justice” b

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