Calgary man convicted of killing his wife in hit-and-run given lesser sentence

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The Alberta Court of Appeal has dismissed the main parts of an appeal from a Calgary man who killed his wife in 2020, but substituted his second-degree murder conviction for the lesser offence of manslaughter.

CPS units at the intersection of 34 Ave and 79 St N.W. in February 2020 during the investigation into the death of Melissa Rae Blommaert. Ronald Candaele was found guilty of second-degree murder in Blommaert's death.

"The forensic pathologist who testified at trial reviewed the injuries suffered by Ms. Blommaert. He said they occurred primarily on the head, abdominal cavity, pelvis and chest," the court document reads. The Court of Appeal dismissed his lawyer's arguments that Blommaert was killed by accident and that he was not driving dangerously on the night she was killed.

"Mr. Candaele is to be given the reasonable benefit of the doubt that he was reckless in his unlawful act of dangerous driving but did not have the intention for murder."Alberta family of 6 missing, vehicle found in Calgary: RCMP Two women are facing charges after leaving three young children unsupervised in a parking lot for hours while they went to a casino in Pickering on Monday, Durham Regional Police say.A woman checked out of a Florida hotel and told staff that she was going on a God-directed shooting spree because of the solar eclipse, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

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