The Crown won’t challenge an Ontario Superior Court ruling that acquitted five former world junior hockey players of sexual assault in a high-profile case, according to a defence lawyer involved in the case.
Defence lawyer Daniel Brown, who represented one of the accused, Alex Formenton, said Aug. 21 that prosecutors had told him they won’t try to appeal last month’s acquittal of Formenton and four others players who had been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in London, Ont., in 2018.
The Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General had 30 days after the July 24 acquittal to appeal, but Brown said it has opted not to do so, although the ministry has not yet publicly confirmed Brown’s statement….