WARNING: This article refers to sexual aggression and can affect those who have experienced sexual violence or know someone affected by him.
A surveillance video shows men who arrive together, for the first time on the air outside the Jack’s bar in London, Ontario, Richmond Row, a popular establishment among university and university students, as well as other young people.
The world -winning hockey hockey players overlook the line, which winds down the sidewalk, talk to a goalkeeper and are used within their identification after their identifications are reviewed.
The video comes from the video of June 2018 that was reproduced on Monday in the trial of five of the players, who are now accused of a position of sexual assault. Michael McLeod, Dillon Dubé, Cal Foot, Carter Hart Ad Alex Formenton, who had NHL races at one time, declared himself innocent on Friday.
McLeod also declared himself innocent of a charge of being part of the crime. In the opening statements, the Crown said that McLeod faces the position because he is accused of encouraging and helping his teammates to participate in sexual activities with the plaintiff, known as EM, without his consent.
The earlier Monday, the jury saw a video of EM waiting in the row to enter the same establishment with a friend. She has seen an automatic cashier and then drink two shots.
On Tuesday, the jury is expected to see more videos of the bar and the Armerías de Delta, the hotel where sexual assault is alleged took place in the morning of June 19, 2018.
On Friday a jury was elected and the trial began seriously on Monday, and the judge instructed the jury on how to consider the evidence that will be presented and the crown describes its case against the five men.
‘A case about consent’ and ‘what is not consent’
The men were in London for a gala celebrating their hockey victory months before. Monday morning, London Det Police. Tiffany Waque, the first witness of the crown, showed photos extracted from the social networks of some of the men who show their championship rings. Waque’s testimony will continue on Tuesday.
“This is a case about consent, and equally so important, this is a case about what is not consent. This case is not about whether EM said no, or was eliminated from an unpleasant situation when he had the opportunity,” said the assistant lawyer of the Crown, Heather Donkers, to the jury of nine women and five men.
“This case is about whether she voluntarily agreed in each instance of sexual contact that took place, at the time they occurred. At the end of this trial, we will ask her to find each of the five defendants guilty of sexual aggression because they touched EM sexually without their voluntary agreement for each act when it took place.”
The jury was told to leave behind his preconceived ideas about what constitutes sexual aggression, how the perpetrators of sexual assault are seen or how someone responds to sexual assault.
“You will have to make a conscious effort to resist and help others to resist conclusions based on conscious or conscious prejudices based on gender, age, race or any other factor,” Judge Maria CarroCcia said to the jury.
The crown must prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt for the jury to find guilty men, he said.
“A reasonable doubt is not a crazy doubt. It is a question based on reason and common sense, and is based on what evidence says or does not tell him.
“If at the end of the case, after evaluating the evidence, he believes that each of the men committed the crime with which he is accused, he must find him guilty. But if in the end he is not sure he had committed the crime, he must find it not guilty,” said body.
Here are the agreed facts
The crown and defense agreed several of the facts in the case, and they do not have to be argued, the jury heard.
They are:
- At the time of the alleged incidents, Room 209 was registered in McLeod and Formenton.
- The date of the alleged incident on June 19, 2018 is admitted.
- The continuity and authenticity of the video of the Jack bar and the Delta hotel are admitted.
- In 2022, the Police received five videos from Drake Batherson’s phone (currently play for Ottawa senators).
- McLod gave the police two videos in 2019 that were made in his hotel room on June 19: one recorded at 3:25 am and the second 4:26 AM admit the continuity and authenticity of those videos.
- In 2022, the police received Snapchat videos from the MCLEOD phone. One took between 1 in the morning and 1:30 am, another at 1:17 am, and another at 1:21 am is a continuous video in three segments and its authenticity is admitted.
The jury also receives a sheet that lists who is in each screenshot of the Jack bar surveillance video, as well as a sheet that lists the people who can be seen in the delta lobby and what time they look there.
The woman, whose identity in the court is protected by a publication prohibition, met the players at Jack’s Bar and Grill on the night of June 18, 2018, and in the early hours of June 19, Donkers said. He was at the bar with friends and the players went there after a gala that celebrated his World Hockey Junior Hockey Medal months before.
McLeod and Em left Jack’s bar together and had sex agreed in their hotel room, said the crown. Then he started sending text messages to people, and the jury will see text messages that include a message that McLeod sent to a group chat asking “‘that wants to be in a rapid via. 209 -Mikey.
Em ‘surprised by what was happening’: lawyer
According to the crown, Em will testify that “she felt drunk, surprised by what was happening and was not sure how to react”, lying on the naked bed as more men began to arrive. He went with what the men wanted because he was “drunk, uncomfortable and did not know what would happen if he did something else,” Donkers said.
Each of the five defendants had sex with EM “without their voluntary agreement on the specific acts that took place,” added the crown lawyer.
The jury will also see videos of the McLeod phone that show them saying “all this was consensual”, but that does not meet the legal definition of consent, the crown argued.
“The defendants did not take measures to ensure that there were an affirmative consent when they touched her. Instead, they simply did what they wanted.”
Em left the hotel room and called a friend, crying, before going home and crying in the shower, said Donkers. The police were contacted, and told the jury that they would see text messages among the players trying to coordinate their stories for the investigators, as well as the text messages that asked them to “make this disappear,” added the lawyer.
At the time the charges were announced, McLeod and Footo were with the New Jersey Devils, Dubé was with Calgary and Hart’s flames was with the Flyadelfia flyers. Formenton was signed by the Senators of Ottawa, but played in Switzerland.
Hart is not currently in sport, but McLeod and Dubé have been with the teams of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Foots played in a Slovak hockey league this season and Formenton has indicated that he is working on the construction in Barrie, Ontario.
Eight weeks have been reserved for the trial. The procedures are expected to continue on Tuesday, and CBC will continue to provide live coverage at 10 am et.
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