Former Hedley singer Jacob Hoggard was sentenced to five years in prison for sexual assault causing bodily harm in 2022. He is currently on bail pending the outcome of this appeal.
A Toronto judge's decision to permit a clinical psychologist's testimony on the "neurobiology of trauma" constituted a legal error that demands a new sex assault trial for ex-pop star Jacob Hoggard, a defence lawyer has told Ontario's highest court.
Permitting such testimony could lead to criminal trials becoming lengthy "battles of the experts," Gerald Chan warned a three-judge panel of the Ontario Court of Appeal on Wednesday.
The "typical division of labour" at a trial is that expert witnesses give evidence in areas that lie within their special field of expertise, the lawyer argued, while trial judges give instructions to the jury on the legal principles that ought to govern their reasoning process.
"But in this case, the trial judged mixed these two different aspects of a criminal trial together into what we say was an unusual and highly prejudicial cocktail."
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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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