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The Quebec Court of Appeal decided on Friday that Emma Czornobaj may drive a car and will not be required to start serving her prison sentence until the challenge of her criminal negligence case is heard.

On Dec. 18, Czornobaj was ordered to serve a 90-day prison term on weekends at a detention centre and saw her driver’s licence suspended as part of her sentence in the case where she was convicted, by a jury, on two counts of criminal negligence causing death. She was supposed to report to a detention centre on Jan. 10 for the start of her sentence but the appellate court’s decision changed that.

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On June 27, 2010, Czornobaj stopped her car in the left hand lane of Highway 30 in Candiac in an attempt to rescue a group of ducklings. As she tried to gather the ducklings, André Roy, 49, who was riding on a motorcycle, crashed into the back of her Honda Civic causing his death and that of his 16-year-old daughter Jessie, who was riding on the back of the Harley-Davidson.