Hockey Canada sex trial: Players' fate now in hands of Windsor judge

Decision in gang-sex trial should settle a despicable affair

Having twice dismissed juries, Superior Court Justice Maria Carroccia will now decide alone by July 24 the fate of five members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team who are accused of engaging in non-consensual group sex with a then-20-year-old woman in June of that year. Michael McLeod, Alex Formenton, Carter Hart, Dillon Dube and Callan Foote have been on trial in a courtroom in London since April, all five charged with sexual assault and…

Hockey Canada sex trial: Players' fate now in hands of Windsor judge

A Crown attorney criticized the suggestion that drinking, dancing or flirting signals sexual availability in her closing argument at trial.