‘You ... thought you were above the law’: Jacob Hoggard’s lawyers slammed over late reveal of secret phone recording - Toronto Star

The prospect of a sex assault complainant hearing a private phone recording for the first time in court “strikes me as flat out cruel and exactly the kind of thing” Parliament sought to avoid after the Jian Ghomeshi trial, Hoggard’s judge said.

Just a few months before Hedley frontman Jacob Hoggard began sending sexual, flirtatious messages to a 15-year-old fan in the spring of 2016, another Canadian music industry celebrity was standing tr… [+8898 chars]

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