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Appeal Court upholds Jacob Hoggard sexual assault conviction
Ontario’s prime court docket has upheld the sexual assault conviction of Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard, the previous frontman for the band Hedley.
Hoggard was discovered responsible in June 2022 of sexual assault inflicting bodily hurt towards an Ottawa lady and later sentenced to 5 years behind bars.
He was launched on bail hours later, pending his enchantment.
Courtroom paperwork present his legal professionals appealed the conviction on 4 grounds, together with that the trial decide erred by admitting the proof of Lori Haskell, a scientific psychologist, on the neurobiology of trauma.
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Additionally they argued the trial decide wrongly permitted prosecutors to argue that the professional’s proof supported the credibility of the lady Hoggard was discovered to have sexually assaulted.
In a unanimous determination launched right this moment, the enchantment court docket discovered no substantial fallacious or miscarriage of justice occurred at trial, and dismissed the enchantment.
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