Former Quebec judge Jacques Delisle, who plead guilty to the manslaughter of his wife in March, has died at 89, according to Radio-Canada.
Delisle had been mired in controversy after he was accused of killing 71-year-old Marie Nicole Rainville, who died in 2009.
Rainville, who had been partially paralyzed due to a stroke, died of a gunshot to the head. Delisle maintained he gave her the gun but denied shooting her.
He was convicted of first-degree murder in 2012 and was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years. He was released in 2021 after the federal justice minister at the time, David Lametti, ordered a retrial citing that a “miscarriage of justice likely occurred.”
A second trial never took place. Instead, Delisle accepted a plea of manslaughter in March and was sentenced to one additional day in prison.
In total, he served eight years and 311 days in prison.