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Guy Turcotte’s lawyer recently announcement having had requested the Supreme Court of Canada to consider overturning a Quebec Court of Appeal ruling that ordered his client to stand for a new trial despite him being found not criminally responsible for killing his own two children in 2009. In the announcement made on Friday by Defence lawyer, Pierre Poupart, he revealed his plans to make the request to Canada’s top court.
Turcotte is now due back at the St-Jérôme, Que., courthouse on Friday, when he will be informed of the start date of his new trial on two counts of first-degree murder. The orders issued by The Quebec Court of Appeal in November alleged to have overturned the 2011 decision, which found that Turcotte was not criminally responsible for the stabbing deaths of his children due to a mental disorder. Turcotte, the former cardiologist, has confessed having had killed his 5-year-old son, Olivier, and 3-year-old daughter, Anne-Sophie, at his rented home north of Montreal.
During his first trial, Poupart alleged that his client suffered from serious mental illness due to his troubled marriage to Isabelle Gaston, who is also the mother of the children, and that he was not aware of what he was doing. However, the Crown argued that the slayings were premeditated. The children were murdered in Turcotte’s home, almost a month after they split, during a weekend when he was supposed to take care of them. Consequently, Turcotte was detained at Montreal’s Pinel Institute, a psychiatric hospital, until his release in December 2012.
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