Ex-judge Jacques Delisle challenging murder conviction to seek bail in hearing in October

A retired Quebec judge convicted of first-degree murder will make an attempt next month to be freed from prison while the Federal Justice Department has another look at his case.

A bail hearing for JacquesDelislewill be held in Quebec City onOct. 18 and 19.

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The Crown has said it will oppose the release ofDelisle, 81, who was found guilty of first-degree murder in 2012 in the slaying of his wife, Nicole Rainville, in November 2009.

Delisleis the only Canadian judge ever convicted of first-degree murder.

While his legal avenues have been exhausted, a spokesman for the Justice Department said this month that Delisle's case will be subject to the investigation phase of the Criminal Conviction Review process due to new evidence.

Innocence Canada, formerly known as Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted, has taken up the case and saidDelislewas convicted on poor forensic evidence.