Crown Reads NHLer's Previous Interview Transcripts In Hockey Canada Sexual Assault Trial

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On Friday on the Hockey Canada sexual assault trial, Vegas Golden Knights heart and witness Brett Howden and a Crown lawyer learn transcripts from earlier interviews he had with investigators, revealing that Howden stated he believed he heard the lady within the lodge room crying.

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Howden, a 2018 world junior teammate of Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dube and Cal Foote – the 5 males charged with sexual assault within the trial – has been testifying by way of Zoom since Tuesday. The accused gamers pleaded not responsible to the fees, and McLeod pleaded not responsible to a different cost of being a celebration to the offense. Howden will not be accused of any wrongdoing.

Crown lawyer Meaghan Cunningham had Howden learn excerpts from a July 3, 2018, interview that he did with investigator Danielle Robitaille. In these excerpts, Howden talks about what he noticed of the lady’s emotional state within the lodge room on the morning of June 19, 2018.

He stated he didn’t see the lady bodily crying however that he heard one thing and that “it seemed like crying.”

Moreover, Howden stated within the 2018 interview the lady tried to depart the room at factors however was advised “oh no, child do not go away" by different males within the room.

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In one other excerpt from the July 2018 interview, Howden was requested about when Formenton and the lady allegedly went to the toilet collectively to have interaction in sexual exercise. Howden stated within the interview that Formenton had spoken to him briefly earlier than going with the lady to the toilet, asking Howden if it was OK for him to have interaction in sexual exercise with the lady.

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“If she consented, you may if you would like, but it surely's as much as you,” Howden stated, in line with the interview transcript.

Cunningham additionally had Howden learn excerpts from a 2022 interview with a Hockey Canada investigator. These excerpts centered round Howden’s accounting of the allegation that Dube slapped the lady’s buttocks within the lodge room.

In his 2022 statements, Howden expressed that, though his recollection of the slapping wasn’t good, he remembered “simply feeling uncomfortable.”

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Hockey Canada Sexual Assault Trial: Golden Knights' Brett Howden Breaks Down In Tears Throughout Protection’s Cross-Examination Vegas Golden Knights heart Brett Howden broke down in tears throughout Thursday’s Hockey Canada sexual assault trial whereas being cross-examined over textual content messages he beforehand despatched to a former teammate per week after the alleged assault.

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Dube’s alleged slapping additionally surfaced in a dialogue on Thursday. The Crown argued for textual content messages from Howden discussing the alleged act to be admissible in courtroom. These textual content messages have been from June 26, 2018, and have been between Howden and Washington Capitals proper winger Taylor Raddysh.

The Crown’s two earlier purposes to have these messages admissible in courtroom have been denied by the presiding choose, Maria Carroccia – the primary of which was an software underneath part 9(2) of the Canada Proof Act, and the second being an software for “previous recollection recorded.”

When offering her ruling Friday morning on the “previous recollection recorded” software, Carroccia expressed how the textual content messages' accuracy and total reliability couldn't be confirmed.

“It is a textual content message despatched to a good friend throughout an off-the-cuff dialog. It's not an announcement made underneath oath,” Carroccia stated.

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Following the ruling on Friday, the Crown sought to have the textual content messages included in courtroom by means of a rumour software, to have an announcement made out of courtroom be deemed truthful and admissible within the proceedings.

The trial is anticipated to renew on Monday with Carroccia making her ruling on whether or not the texts shall be made admissible underneath the Crown’s newest software.