QUEBEC — A retired Quebec judge who was facing a second murder trial in his wife's 2009 shooting death will enter a guilty plea on Thursday, putting an end to a legal battle spanning more than 14 years.
QUEBEC — A retired Quebec judge who was facing a second murder trial in his wife's 2009 shooting death will enter a guilty plea on Thursday, putting an end to a legal battle spanning more than 14 years.
"The parties have announced that Mr. Delisle's case is postponed until March 14, 2024 at 9 a.m., at the Quebec courthouse, to be disposed of, and that Mr. Delisle's presence is required in court,” Johnson said. Delisle has maintained that he found his wife already dead of an apparent suicide when he walked into the condo they shared in Quebec City on Nov. 12, 2009. She was lying on a sofa, a .22-calibre pistol at her side and a bullet wound in her head, the trial heard. The Crown argued that Delisle killed her to avoid a costly divorce and that he had wanted to move in with his former secretary, with whom he was having an affair.
Delisle's initial appeal was dismissed in 2013, and the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear his case.