Watching the coverage on cp24 you’d think the defendants were found guilty.
Report: Five members of Canada’s 2018 WJC team told to surrender to London Police
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Then the CBC staff must all be on mental health leave. Rosemary is probably still crying.
They are the biggest cry babies.
MANDEL: Only one 'truth' and it wasn't told by Hockey Canada complainant
An Ontario judge has found five former members of Canada's world junior hockey team not guilty of sex assault charges.
torontosun.com
Thought that she was quite clear and reasonable there.
Read the full text of the judge's verdict in the Hockey Canada sex assault trial
Read the full text of Ontario Superior Court Justice Maria Carroccia’s verdict, which was delivered in a London courtroom on July 25, 2025.
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Any of you dudes actually read the decision?
The credibility analysis starts on page 62 and can kindly be described as "goal directed nit picking". The judge applied a standard of near perfection to the complainant's testimony and scrutinized every little word she said. My take is that the judge made the decision that she would rather wreck 1 woman's life than 5 young guys' lives, given that it was a he said / she said case and then the judge backed up that conclusion by nitpicking the crown case.
The is pretty standard courtroom stuff and every judge does it to some extent. Nailing down your credibility findings with small examples appeal-proofs your decision. It's survival in judge-world.
I wasn't at the trial. I might have agreed with the judge. Or disbelieved the complainant based on different observations than the trial judge. Or believed the Crown case. But I'm not impressed by what the judge wrote and I don't think the Crown case was frivolous.
And the decision will have a deterrent effect on other women coming forward and reporting physical or sexual abuse in a he said / she said situation.
My bad, just figured a goalie needs to have that skill.
But seriously, EM got paid off so she didn’t want to go to trial, right? So how did she get forced to testify and such. [someone give me the TLDR version plz, tia]
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Trish McIntyre set to become London’s first woman police chief on acting basis - London | Globalnews.ca
London Police Service Chief Steve Williams will be retiring at the end of next week. Deputy chief of police Trish McIntyre will serve as acting chief of police.
globalnews.ca
Steve Williams retired as London Chief of Police in February, 2023. Deputy chief of police Trish McIntyre served as acting chief of police until a full-time replacement was selected. The new Chief took office in June, 2025.
Williams was Chief when the incident took place. McIntyre was acting Chief when charges were filed. McIntyre has recently gone on medical leave, but details of her health issue are not posted online. You can speculate as to whether this is a coincidence or not.
They wouldn’t dare take such a risk. They got lucky once. It’s not always guaranteed
I love when people claim to be “reasonable” “good person” “honest” “incredibly generous!!!” Sell me baby !
They should have been. I was in the Apple Store and numerous (4) people were talking about how upset they were. This included two men.
I do trials for a living. 99% of trial wins involve the judge picking a side and then writing a set of reasons that nit picks the losing side's evidence to bolster the judge's choice of who to believe.
Another judge could have easily chosen the girl's evidence to believe. The problems with her evidence the judge referred to were very small. There's no way the Crown could have foreseen how that trial could have turned out.
There are cases where the complainant's testimony is so nonsensically unbelievable that NO judge could believe it. In those cases, the Crown normally drops the charges pre trial or mid trial. This was NOT one of those cases.
This was a pretty standard case, except for the massive publicity it got.
Not a coincidence. The cops did nothing wrong here.Trish McIntyre set to become London’s first woman police chief on acting basis - London | Globalnews.ca
London Police Service Chief Steve Williams will be retiring at the end of next week. Deputy chief of police Trish McIntyre will serve as acting chief of police.
Steve Williams retired as London Chief of Police in February, 2023. Deputy chief of police Trish McIntyre served as acting chief of police until a full-time replacement was selected. The new Chief took office in June, 2025.
Williams was Chief when the incident took place. McIntyre was acting Chief when charges were filed. McIntyre has recently gone on medical leave, but details of her health issue are not posted online. You can speculate as to whether this is a coincidence or not.
The attitude from the Bench would be:
"You got lucky the first time. Don't push your shit so hard in our faces. Now pay the Crown's court costs and get the fuck out of our courtroom with your dumb shit."
Like most people I only read or what the media reported which is always one-sided in these cases. I think it was reported that the defense called no witnesses. In that case it must have been pretty obvious to the Judge that the kids were innocent. I don't think we need to second the decision.
