Cases Results

C.R. was charged with sexual interference and invitation to sexual touching as a result of allegations made by a 15-year-old girl. It was alleged that C.R. met the complainant on a dating site and began talking online. The complainant told C.R. that she was 18 and recently graduated high school. After talking online for several weeks, the complainant snuck out of her house, met C.R. and engaged in multiple sex acts. The complainant’s parents realized she was missing and contacted the police. After searching through the complainant’s internet history, police were able to contact C.R. who admitted to being with the complainant but then dropping her off at a different location. After the complainant was eventually located, she told police of the sexual activity and C.R. was charged with multiple offences.

After receiving disclosure, including the complainant’s messages to C.R. in which she repeatedly lied about her age, Cory thoroughly investigated the complainant’s online behaviour including ongoing misrepresentations of her age. As a result of what Cory was able to find online, coupled with the issues found in the disclosure, the Crown agreed that there was no likelihood of conviction and withdrew the charges.

S.T. was accused of sexually assaulting a woman he met at a bar. It was alleged that after a night of drinking and dancing at a downtown bar, the complainant invited S.T. back to her apartment to hang out. While at the apartment, the two continued to drink, had sexual intercourse and fell asleep. The next morning, S.T. left the house after exchanging phone numbers with the complainant. Over the next week, the complainant made numerous attempts to contact S.T. who did not respond. Three weeks after the two spent the night together, the complainant told police that the sexual intercourse was not consensual. S.T. maintained the act was consensual and pled not guilty.

At trial, Cory cross-examined the complainant on her previous inconsistent statement and her many texts and phone calls to S.T. At the end of Cory’s cross-examination, the Crown withdrew the charge which was the best outcome at trial.

A.A. was accused of sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl who lived with her family in the basement suite. The allegations were made by the complainant to her mother at the exact moment she was getting in trouble for leaving the basement suite without permission. It was alleged, that with five people in the home, A.A. snuck the young child into his bedroom while her brother was feet away watching television. A.A. maintained his innocence and pled not guilty.

At trial, multiple witnesses were called by the Crown including a doctor who conducted a medical examination shortly after the sexual assault was alleged to have happened. Cory cross-examined the witness to create a timeline of events that significantly contradicted the complainant’s version. During cross-examination of the doctor, she conceded that her medical findings from her examination of the complainant were inaccurate. A.A. maintained his innocence and testified in his own defence.

Cory argued that based on the timeline of events coupled with the inaccurate medical evidence, the sexual assault was simply impossible. At the conclusion of the trial, A.A. was found not guilty. This was the best possible outcome.

During the trial, Cory was also successful in arguing for Costs (repayment for legal fees) as a result of the government failing to provide an interpreter. It is incredibly rare to successfully recover legal fees in criminal proceedings.

E.A. was accused by his wife of sexually assaulting her multiple times. She alleged that days after moving to Canada to be with E.A., whom she had met on an online dating site, his behavior suddenly changed and he kept her a as a prisoner in their matrimonial home. She alleged that he refused to let her have contact with the outside world, including speaking with her own family. She further alleged that on the few occasions she was allowed out of the house in his presence, he forced her to walk behind him with her head down. E.A. denied all wrongdoing and pled not guilty.

At trial, Cory cross-examined the complainant for two days. In doing so, he made use of phone records, FaceTime records, photographs, video, secret recordings, previous statements and medical records. Over the course of two days, Cory exposed significant inconsistencies between the complainant’s version of events and the evidence put forward by defence. Cory’s client maintained his innocence and testified in his own defence.

Cory argued that the complainant was committing immigration fraud and fabricated the allegations to support her attempt to remain in Canada and start a new life, without E.A. At the conclusion of the trial, E.A. was found not guilty which was the best outcome.

N.A. was accused by his two teenage daughters of sexually assaulting them for over a decade. As a result of the allegations, N.A. faced a number of serious charges that if proven, would have resulted in a lengthy period of incarceration. N.A. denied all wrongdoing and pled not guilty.

At trial, Cory meticulously cross-examined each of the complainants and exposed significant inconsistencies in each of their versions of events. Cory was able to show the trial judge that the complaint’s versions of events were both internally and externally inconsistent to the point of being simply unbelievable. N.A. maintained his innocence and testified in his own defence.

Cory argued that the complainants fabricated the sexual assaults to get back at their estranged father for no longer being in their life. At the conclusion of the trial, N.A. was found not guilty which was the best outcome for the client.

B.S. and his younger brother were accused of sexually assaulting their younger sister for approximately 5 years in the 1970’s. The allegations were made in 2015 after the complainant had been estranged from the family for decades. If convicted, B.S. was facing a lengthy jail sentence. B.S. and his brother unequivocally denied the charges and pled not guilty.

The complainant made incredible allegations of years-long abuse including gang rapes in which she was strung up to the ceiling by bedsheets by her brothers and multiple unidentified individuals. The allegations amounted to over 1500 sexual assaults in a small house shared by 8 siblings, parents, grandmother and foster children. Remarkably, none of the many other people residing in the house witnessed a single act of sexual assault.

During the course of the investigation, the complainant gave a number of statements and subsequently testified at a preliminary inquiry. Over the course of 4 days, Cory cross-examined the complainant on her ever-changing versions of events and provable fabrications. On one significant allegation, Cory had had the complainant admit to committing perjury by intentionally lying under oath at the preliminary inquiry.

At the conclusion of cross-examination, the Crown Prosecutor asked the judge to dismiss all of the charges against B.S. and his brother.

This was the best possible outcome for the client.

Our client was charged with sexual assault as a result of allegations that throughout the course of his relationship with the complainant, he would become intoxicated and sexually grope her in front of her young children. The children also gave police statements indicating that they witnessed the incidents. A conviction for sexual assault would be catastrophic for our client including a period of incarceration, loss of employment and inability to travel to the USA for life. After lengthy resolution discussions, Cory Wilson was able to convince the Crown Prosecutor to allow T.O. to plead guilty to the lessor offence of common assault and avoid the possibility of jail. This was a great outcome for the client.

R.C. was charged with distribution of intimate images without consent after he went through the phone of his massage therapist and sent himself a number of intimate photos he found on the device. This was only discovered after the masseuse happened to look in her sent box and saw a number of photos being sent to an email address that she was not aware of. After determining it to by R.C., police confronted him and he gave a full confessions. The Crown’s original position was that this was a matter that required a jail sentence of 90 days to be served on weekends. This would have caused R.C. significant difficulty as he is a single father of two young children.

At sentencing, Cory Wilson successfully argued that the sentence was best served by way of a community sentence that allowed the client to be with his children and attend all of their various events. As a result, the children had no interruption in their life and R.C. was able to move forward in a positive manner.

H.M. was charged with two counts of sexual assault as a result of multiple complaints against a group of individuals in a public wave pool. The complainants alleged that they were groped while wadding in the pool. Multiple complainants came forward and described a number of different individuals, thought to be in a group together. H.M. was never identified by the complainants, but was with the identified group and wearing the color shorts the perpetrator was alleged to be wearing.

Knowing that he didn’t do anything wrong, H.M, gave a statement to police, denying guilt but admitted to wearing the shorts in question. Without more evidence, police arrested H.M. for two counts of sexual assault.

Despite the very evidence, the Crown Prosecutor refused to withdraw the charge after initial discussions. However, after Cory Wilson spent hours going through CCTV footage of the pool, he was able to identify H.M. and positively prove he did not commit the office. As a result of this diligence, the Crown Prosecutor withdrew the criminal charges prior to trial.

This was the best possible outcome for H.M. as he was left with no criminal record for the incident and did not have to proceed to trial.

B.B. was accused of rubbing his neighbor’s vagina over her pants after she fell asleep while he was massaging her. She woke to him touching her vagina and then he allegedly asked if she wanted him to preform oral sex on her. It is further alleged that he then tried to grab her breasts before she got out of the bed and left the room. Police were contacted several days later and B.B. gave a very unfavorable statement.

B.B. was retired and he and his wife spent half of the year in the USA. He also has three grandchildren living in the USA. A sexual assault conviction would cause B.B. to be banned from the USA for the rest of his life.

After months of resolution discussions, the Crown Prosecutor was finally swayed by Cory Wilson’s resolution offer to reduce the charge to common assault so that B.B. would be able to travel to the USA.

This was a very favorable resolution as B.B.’s life would have been radically changed if he was convicted of sexual assault.