LONDON, Ontario — A decide declared a mistrial Friday within the sexual assault case involving 5 former members of Canada’s world junior hockey workforce.
The ruling from a decide in Ontario means a brand new trial shall be held for Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dube and Callan Foote, who’ve all pleaded not responsible to sexual assault.
McLeod has additionally pleaded not responsible to a further cost of being a celebration to the offense of sexual assault.
The trial started Wednesday and the prosecution’s first witness solely briefly took the stand earlier than testimony was placed on maintain for authorized arguments that befell within the absence of the jury.
Ontario Superior Court docket Justice Maria Carroccia introduced jurors again Friday morning and knowledgeable them that they had been being discharged.
The fees towards the gamers relate to an encounter that befell in a resort room in Ontario in June 2018, when most of the workforce’s members had been in London for a Hockey Canada gala.
