Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard arrives at court for his sentencing hearing in Toronto on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022.
Ontario's top court has upheld the June 2022 sexual assault conviction of Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard, the former frontman for the band Hedley.In a unanimous decision released Friday, Ontario's top court upheld the June 2022 sexual assault conviction of Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard, the former frontman for the band Hedley. Ontario's top court has upheld the sexual assault conviction of Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard, the former frontman for the band Hedley.
Hoggard was found guilty in June 2022 of sexual assault causing bodily harm against an Ottawa woman and later sentenced to five years behind bars.Court documents show his lawyers appealed the conviction on four grounds, including that the trial judge erred by admitting the evidence of Lori Haskell, a clinical psychologist, on the neurobiology of trauma.
They also argued the trial judge wrongly permitted prosecutors to argue that the expert's evidence supported the credibility of the woman Hoggard was found to have sexually assaulted.'A part of me died that day,' says Ottawa woman sexually assaulted by Jacob Hoggard In a unanimous decision released today, the appeal court found no substantial wrong or miscarriage of justice occurred at trial, and dismissed the appeal."While we maintain that Mr. Hoggard's trial was unfair, we respect the court's decision," the statement read.
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