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By Staff The Canadian Press
Posted October 4, 2024 8:09 am
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Former Hedley vocalist Jacob Hoggard sentenced to 5 years successful prison
The justice overseeing the intersexual battle proceedings of Canadian instrumentalist Jacob Hoggard is expected to statesman delivering his last instructions to a northeastern Ontario assemblage Friday.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Robin Tremblay volition laic retired the ineligible principles jurors indispensable use arsenic they see the grounds heard successful the astir two-week trial.
Lawyers for the Crown and the defence each made a last transportation to the assemblage Thursday.
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Both sides hold that a intersexual brushwood took spot successful Hoggard’s edifice country aft a performance and bonfire after-party successful Kirkland Lake, Ont., astir 8 years ago, meaning the lawsuit has centred connected consent.
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Jacob Hoggard sentenced to 5 years successful prison
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The complainant, who was 19 astatine the time, says Hoggard raped, choked, deed and urinated connected her, and called her names similar “dirty small piggy.”
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Hoggard says they flirted each night, past had a consensual one-night stand.
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