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The Canadian Press
Posted Could 23, 2025 6:20 am
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An Ontario choose is anticipated to rule at present on whether or not texts despatched by a former member of Canada’s world junior hockey workforce might be admitted as proof on the sexual assault trial of 5 of his ex-teammates.
Brett Howden confronted questions Thursday in a voir-dire — primarily a trial inside a trial — over a textual content dialog he had with one other then-teammate, Taylor Raddysh, on June 26, 2018.
Within the alternate, Howden describes some elements of the June 19, 2018 encounter on the coronary heart of the trial, together with a second when he says one of many accused, Dillon Dube, slapped the complainant on the buttocks.
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The Crown needs to introduce a few of these texts as proof on account of Howden’s lack of reminiscence on sure particulars of the occasions and the statements he has made up to now.
Dube, Michael McLeod, Alex Formenton, Carter Hart and Callan Foote have pleaded not responsible to sexual assault.
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McLeod has additionally pleaded not responsible to an extra cost of being a celebration to the offence of sexual assault.
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