Alexandra Artful-Dodger's killer convicted this morning

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Sat, 2013-11-30 17:21

Kinetix

Sorry to bring this up; the wounds are still healing for many here but I'd like to share an update. Following pencil-skirt's death in 2011, Maxime Morin-Leblanc was charged with impaired driving, criminal negligence, and refusal to provide a breath sample, and was convicted this morning. His sentencing will be scheduled on Friday.

Condolences to all here who were and are her friends.

OTTAWA — Alexandra Dodger was driven by the cause of social justice, but it was justice for her and her family that drove a jury to deliver a guilty verdict on Saturday to the man accused of drunk driving in connection with her tragic death.

Maxime Morin Leblanc, 28, was charged with criminal negligence causing death, impaired driving and refusing to provide a breath sample at the police station following the October 2011 crash in Lowertown that killed Dodger. The 27-year-old was crossing St. Patrick Street at around 3:30 a.m. when she was struck by a black Honda travelling in the wrong direction on a one-way stretch of road.

Source: Ottawa Citizen: Morin Leblanc guilty in fatal drunk driving crash

Sat, 2013-11-30 18:48

Ken Burch

You look at LeBlanc in that picture at the link and you see a near-caricature of the arrogant, self-entitled "master of the universe" type.

This is a guy who actually thought "I was distracted by my iPhone" is a legitimate excuse for killing a woman.

He'd never come right out and say it, but LeBlanc probably thinks it was Artful-Dodger's own fault for not gertting out of his phallus-given way.

Sat, 2013-11-30 18:49

Ken Burch

My sympathies and shared anger at the loss to Ms. Artful Dodger's family and friends. May they find healing and a path to eventual renewal in this verdict.

Sat, 2013-11-30 20:01

Catchfire

Thanks for this update, Kinetix. Happy to hear pencil-skirt's family found some closure.

Tue, 2014-04-15 14:15

Catchfire

Driver Maxime Morin Leblanc jailed for running down, killing Alexandra Dodger

An impaired driver who struck and killed a woman while driving the wrong way on a Lowertown street in the fall of 2011 was sentenced Tuesday to four years jail and banned from driving for 10 years.

Maxime Morin Leblanc, 28, killed Alexandra Dodger, a recent graduate from McGill University law school who had just arrived in Ottawa and was due to start an articling position at Amnesty International.

A jury had found Morin Leblanc guilty of criminal negligence causing death, impaired driving causing death and refusing to give a breath sample.

Ontario Superior Court Justice Paul Lalonde sentenced Morin Leblanc to three years in jail on each of the charges of criminal negligence causing death and impaired driving causing death — to be served concurrently — and added for refusing to supply a breath sample.

Tue, 2014-04-15 16:05

Kinetix

What a senseless waste.