(OTTAWA) The Supreme Court of Canada will not consider the decision of the Quebec Court of Appeal which overturned the guilty verdict against Adèle Sorella for the second degree murder of her two daughters, in 2009 in Laval, and who ordered a third trial in this case.
Posted at 1:58 p.m.
The Court of Appeal had ordered in 2019 the holding of a new trial for this Lavalloise convicted twice of the murder, in March 2009, of her two daughters, aged eight and nine. The Crown therefore hoped that the Supreme Court would overrule this decision of the Quebec Court of Appeal.
Adele Sorella was first convicted in 2013 of the first degree murder of the two girls, and she was automatically sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years. But the guilty verdict was overturned in 2017 by the Court of Appeal, which then ordered a new trial.
At the end of this second trial, in 2019, a jury had found her guilty of two counts of murder, but in the second degree this time, therefore liable to life in prison without the possibility of release for 10 years. But this verdict was once again overturned on appeal last March. The Court of Appeal criticized the trial judge for having erred in refusing the accused to plead “the thesis of the involvement of organized crime” in the murder of the two girls.
As usual, the Supreme Court did not give reasons on Thursday for refusing to hear the Director of Criminal and Penal Prosecutions in this case. Mme Sorella will therefore undergo a third trial, as ordered by the Quebec Court of Appeal last March.
The two girls had been found dead in their playroom on March 31, 2009. The bodies bore no signs of violence and the cause of their death was never determined.