Defence teams for 5 ex-Hockey Canada world junior players continue closing arguments at sex assault trial

Questions astir imaginable sentences

The 5 men connected proceedings person each pleaded not blameworthy to 1 number each of intersexual assault; Michael McLeod is the lone 1 facing a 2nd charge, and has pleaded not blameworthy to being a enactment to the offence.

We’ve had immoderate queries astir the imaginable penalties for immoderate convictions. (Whether anyone is recovered blameworthy is up to Justice Maria Carroccia alone).

We enactment the question of imaginable sentences to a mates of ineligible experts who aren’t progressive successful this trial.

They accidental sentencing is simply a highly individualized process.

The sentences could range, depending connected the circumstances of the offence and the offender.

For intersexual assault, everything is available, from an implicit discharge each the mode up to national situation time, says Sarah Leamon, a transgression defence lawyer watching the proceedings from Vancouver.

For intersexual assaults involving penetration, the emblematic starting constituent is 2 years little a time successful jail, she adds.

In McLeod’s case, helium could lone beryllium recovered blameworthy of the 2nd complaint of being a enactment to the offence if idiosyncratic other is recovered blameworthy of intersexual battle ‒ and then, the condemnation (for being convicted of being a enactment to the offence) could commencement astatine six to 12 months successful prison, says Nick Cake, a erstwhile Crown who’s present a transgression defence lawyer successful London.

In the satellite juniors lawsuit case, if anyone is convicted of intersexual assault, Cake says, the Crown volition apt question a penitentary condemnation of 2 years oregon more, portion a condemnation involving oral enactment would beryllium astatine slightest 2 years.

There is nary minimum condemnation for intersexual battle convictions successful this lawsuit due to the fact that E.M. was not a insignificant astatine the clip of the alleged offence. The maximum punishment would beryllium 14 years successful prison.

All the offences (which autumn nether the Criminal Code) suffice for thing from a discharge to custody, including a conditional condemnation bid (house arrest), Cake says.