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MONTREAL —Isabelle Gaston lost her two young children, stabbed to death by their father, the cardiologist Gaston was married to.

After those 2009 slayings, each gory detail was sifted through in a highly publicized trial that served as gossip fodder in Quebec.

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Gaston then watched as her ex-husband was found not criminally responsible of the crime in the summer of 2011. He was eventually deemed fit for release from a mental institution, where he’d been housed following a total of 46 months in custody.

So Gaston says she’s treating the Crown’s appeal of his verdict, to be heard in Montreal this week, with a heavy dose of trepidation and skepticism.

The Crown’s appeal of Guy Turcotte’s verdict will begin Monday in Quebec’s highest court as the Crown seeks to have the judgment annulled and a new trial ordered. That decision will fall to three appellate court judges.

“It’s necessary but it’s a big stress,” Gaston told The Canadian Press in a phone interview. ”We’re reliving the events again.