Jacques Delisle at the courthouse in 2022 (Archive photo)
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Former judge Jacques Delisle will return to court Thursday morning. He will enter a guilty plea, indicates his lawyer, Mr. Jacques Larochelle. However, it is not known to which charge he will plead guilty.
This turnaround in the situation was confirmed by the Crown and the defense Wednesday morning during a Superior Court hearing at the palace of justice of Quebec.
Even if the ex-judge has been trying to prove his innocence since 2010, his lawyer, Me Jacques Larochelle, had recently shown an openness to the idea of participating, with the prosecution, in what is called a facilitation conference in penal and criminal matters, a process which serves to determine whether a settlement between the parties regarding disputed issues is possible outside of a trial.
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Me Jacques Larochelle (Archive photo)
Meanwhile, on Thursday, the Supreme Court was also due to make its decision on whether or not it will take up the case of former judge Jacques Delisle. However, since Wednesday morning, this judgment on an authorization request has been removed from the agenda of the Supreme Court.
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By bringing its case before the highest court in the country, the former judge wanted to restore the stay of proceedings of his second trial, in 2022, for the murder of his partner, which the Court of Appeal had canceled in September.
Journalist Isabelle Richer traces the thread of events to the Information Network.
The annulment of the stay of proceedings by the Court of Appeal would force the holding of a new trial. The 88-year-old former judge obtained the ruling due to the destruction of evidence.
During his first trial, in 2012, Jacques Delisle was found guilty of the murder of his partner, Nicole Rainville.
After a request for judicial review, Jacques Delisle, who was serving a life prison sentence, was finally entitled to a second trial following a decision by the federal Minister of Justice which had grounds to believe that a miscarriage of justice had been committed in this case.
After the' halt of the proceedings due to the unacceptable negligence of the pathologist responsible for carrying out the autopsy of Nicole Rainville, this second trial never took place and the ex-judge has been a free man since then.
Teilor Stone has been a reporter on the news desk since 2013. Before that she wrote about young adolescence and family dynamics for Styles and was the legal affairs correspondent for the Metro desk. Before joining Thesaxon , Teilor Stone worked as a staff writer at the Village Voice and a freelancer for Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, GQ and Mirabella. To get in touch, contact me through my teilor@nizhtimes.com 1-800-268-7116
