Investigation launched into former judge Jacques Delisle’s first-degree murder conviction

The Justice Department’s Criminal Conviction Review process is launching an investigation into the first-degree murder conviction of a Canadian judge.

In 2012, Jacques Delisle was found guilty of first-degree murder in the November of 2009 death of his wife, Nicole Rainville, in Quebec City.

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Crown forensic experts concluded Rainville was murdered, while defence experts argued she took her own life.

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The now 81-year-old Delisle admitted in a jailhouse interview last year he’d helped Rainville take her own life by leaving a loaded gun for her to use.

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The investigation phase is triggered when there is “new and significant” information in a case.

The justice minister will decide on the next step after receiving a final report following the probe.