Just four days in, a judge has declared a mistrial and ordered a new jury be selected at the sexual assault trial of five players from Canada’s championship-winning 2018 world junior hockey team. While the decision may have caused the trial to slightly wobble, it hasn’t derailed it. A new jury panel had already assembled […]
The sexual assault trial of five former Team Canada junior hockey players won’t be back before the jury until Friday.
First was former New Jersey Devils forward Michael McLeod. “Not guilty,” he said twice, once after hearing the charge of sexual assault and again after hearing his second charge of sexual assault as a party to the offence. Ready for his trial. He sat down. Next was former Philadelphia Flyers goaltender Carter Hart. “Not guilty.” […]