Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard has deserted his bid to enchantment his 2022 sexual assault conviction earlier than Canada’s high courtroom.
The Supreme Court docket of Canada web site exhibits the previous Hedley frontman discontinued his software for depart to enchantment final Friday.
That’s the identical day Hoggard, 40, was discovered not responsible of sexual assault in a separate, unrelated case in northeastern Ontario.
Within the 2022 case, a Toronto jury discovered Hoggard responsible of sexual assault inflicting bodily hurt towards an Ottawa girl, however not responsible of the identical cost and of sexual interference in relation to a teenage fan.
His attorneys appealed the conviction on 4 grounds, together with that the trial choose made an error in admitting skilled proof on the neurobiology of trauma.
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In August, the Enchantment Court docket discovered that whereas the choose had erred in permitting the testimony of medical psychologist Lori Haskell, the choose had corrected any potential misuse of that proof in answering the jury’s questions.
There was thus was no “substantial mistaken or miscarriage of justice” on account of the error, the enchantment panel mentioned in a unanimous ruling. The courtroom didn’t discover any errors associated to the opposite grounds for enchantment.
Hoggard began serving his five-year sentence after his enchantment was dismissed.
The singer turned to the Supreme Court docket in early September, and the Enchantment Court docket rejected his request for bail pending the result of his software to the Supreme Court docket.
Allegations of sexual misconduct involving Hoggard first surfaced in early 2018, and he was charged within the Toronto case that July.
He was then charged with sexual assault in an alleged incident in Kirkland Lake, Ont., whereas the Toronto trial was underway. Jurors acquitted him in that case final week after deliberating for lower than six hours.
Hedley went on an indefinite hiatus in 2018 and Hoggard has testified that they broke up that 12 months.
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