The Court of Appeal of Quebec issued a statement Monday confirming the death of Delisle, who had presided on the province’s highest court from 1992 until he retired in 2009
Former Quebec Court of Appeal judge Jacques Delisle walks to the courtroom on March 14, at the hall of justice in Quebec City.Jacques Delisle, a retired Quebec judge who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in his wife’s shooting death, has died at age 89.
Delisle spent nearly nine years in prison after he was convicted of first-degree murder and handed a life sentence in the 2009 shooting death of his wife, Marie Nicole Rainville. The retired judge pleaded guilty to manslaughter in March, avoiding a second trial, with his lawyer telling the court his client did not shoot Rainville but caused her death by leaving a loaded gun next to her, at her request.
Defence lawyer Jacques Larochelle told the court in March that Rainville had been struggling from the effects of a stroke that left her partly paralyzed and that she had a broken hip that robbed her of her independence and her ability to enjoy life.
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