Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard arrives at the Toronto courthouse for sentencing after being found guilty earlier in the year of sexually assaulting an Ottawa woman, Oct. 20, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Tijana Martina jury found Hoggard guilty on June 5, 2022
"I didn’t know the phone call existed. I heard it and then twenty minutes later I heard it in front of a room full of strangers." On Oct. 20, 2022, Ontario Superior Court Justice Gilian Roberts ordered Hoggard to be taken into custody to begin serving his five-year sentence. The convicted rapist was put in handcuffs and taken to a Toronto remand centre, only to be released a few hours later after being granted bail pending appeal. While waiting for his appeal, Hoggard has been working in the Vancouver area as a carpenter.
"The relevance of this evidence, however, assumed the existence of the very traumatic events at issue in the trial — namely, the alleged sexual assaults. Unless the jury assumed Hoggard was guilty, Dr. Haskell’s evidence was irrelevant. It should never have been admitted," wrote Hoggard’s lawyers. But rather, the Crown argues that evidence like Haskell’s expertise helps to ensure that the "truth-seeking function of the trial is not distorted."Isabel Grant, a professor who teaches sexual assault law at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia, says a high threshold needs to be met for defence lawyers to win the appeal.
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