Ontario’s Court of Appeal has also dismissed Philip Grandine’s appeal of the 15-year prison sentence handed to him in January 2020.
Tests later revealed the 29-year-old woman had lorazepam, a sedative better known under the brand name Ativan, in her blood despite not having been prescribed it. Court heard she had discovered her husband had been having an affair. He also argued that the pre-trial motion judge made an error in refusing to exclude evidence of computer searches including the word “autopsy,” suggesting it had little value at his retrial and was “prejudicial.”
The Court of Appeal rejected Grandine’s arguments and wrote that there is “no basis to interfere with the sentence,” which was “fit and reasonable” in all the circumstances.
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