CP NewsAlert: Appeal Court overturns stay granted to Quebec judge in wife’s killing

By The Canadian Press on September 6, 2023.

Quebec's Court of Appeal has overturned a stay of proceedings granted to retired Quebec judge Jacques Delisle, whose conviction for fatally shooting his wife in 2012 was reversed by the federal justice minister. Delisle, left, walks into court with his granddaughter Anne Sophie Morency, Thursday, June 14, 2012 in Quebec City. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot

MONTREAL – Quebec’s Court of Appeal has overturned a stay of proceedings granted to a retired Quebec judge whose conviction for fatally shooting his wife in 2012 was reversed by the federal justice minister.

The province’s highest court has ordered that the case against Jacques Delisle return to Quebec Superior Court, where he had been facing a second trial.

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