Breaking: The jury in the Jacob Hoggard trial begins deliberations. What they didn't hear? Another sex assault charge
Hedley frontman Jacob Hoggard has been criminally charged with sexually assaulting a third female complainant, a charge that can now be reported by the Star for the first time Tuesday after a jury has begun deliberating whether Hoggard raped a 16-year-old fan and a young woman in 2016.Hoggard, 37, was charged by the Ontario Provincial Police with sexual assault causing bodily harm on March 2, 2022, just two months before his current trial began.
In a shocking moment during the cross-examination of that complainant, the defence itself mistakenly referenced one of these allegations when it showed her a Hoggard’s lawyer Megan Savard had argued that an apology could lead to her client being seen in a negative light. Ultimately, Justice Roberts did rule that the jury could consider whether there is a “specific and distinctive pattern of conduct by Mr. Hoggard that it would defy coincidence that would lie or be mistaken about Mr. Hoggard’s conduct.”
Hoggard is not accused of a crime in relation to the photos, which the complainant testified he first asked for after she turned 16. The Crown argued that this testimony was essential for the jury to understand the context of the complainant’s allegations — as well as for possibly showing similarities in the accounts of the two women.
But when the defence sought to cross-examine the second complainant about specific sexual comments she allegedly made to Hoggard in Snapchat messages leading up to their meeting in a downtown Toronto hotel room to have sex — questions the defence argued were allowed by the ruling — Roberts said her ruling had been a mistake which she regretted.
the “twin myths” that a sexually experienced woman is both more likely to consent to sex and less worthy of belief.its own application before trial to argue that the questions were permissible — a process intended to prevent complainants from being subjected to humiliating and irrelevant cross-examination about evidence that would only support myths about sexual assault victims. At such hearings, complainants are entitled to have their own lawyers make arguments on their behalf.
The jury, which was given a written description of the video, was not told how police obtained a copy.
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