A Crown attorney criticized the suggestion that drinking, dancing or flirting signals sexual availability in her closing argument
The Crown prosecuting five former junior hockey players accused of sexually assaulting a woman took aim at defence criticisms of her
A lawyer for one of the five former world junior hockey players being tried for sexual assault took aim at Hockey Canada, London police
The lawyers representing five hockey players on trial for sexual assault called their accuser’s evidence “an exercise in fact-finding frustration.”
It started, Michael McLeod’s defence lawyer said, with “a white lie.” It’s ended up in a London courtroom where five 2018 Team Canada junior hockey players are on trial over sexual assault allegations that David Humphrey called “preposterous.” Humphrey, the first of the five defence legal teams to give a closing argument, described the 27‑year‑old […]
Carter Hart said he believes if anyone had been offside with the woman in Canadian world junior hockey teammate Michael McLeod’s hotel room, he would have said something, done something or simply left.
Mathis Langevin couldn’t believe what was happening, either. When the Rimouski goaltender lost one of his leg pads in a tangle with London centre Sam O’Reilly Sunday night, he didn’t know how to react. He just stood there and shrugged at the officials who allowed play to go on while the Oceanic had the puck. […]
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She was dressed just in a towel and smiling at the camera on Canadian hockey star Michael McLeod’s cellphone. It was 4:26 a.m. inside a room at the Delta Armouries hotel in downtown London in June 2018. “It was all consensual. Are you recording me?” she asked in the video, played Wednesday for jurors at […]
So, it’s been hot. The judge knows it. The jury knows it. So do the hockey players in their suits, the lawyers in their gowns and the court staff in their required uniforms. “You may have noticed, it’s a little hot in here,” Superior Court Justice Maria Carroccia said Tuesday afternoon to the jury at […]