MONTREAL — Jacques Delisle, a retired Quebec judge who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in his wife's shooting death, has died at age 89.
MONTREAL — 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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