Cases Results

S.Z. was accused by his former girlfriend of sexually assaulting her months after they broke up. She alleged that the client and she were no longer having sexual relations and S.Z. took advantage of her while she was having a panic attack. S.Z. maintained that despite breaking up, they engaged in an ongoing “friends with benefits” relationship including on the night in question. Further, S.Z. admitted to kissing and rubbing the complainant, but not the digital penetration as alleged. S.Z. believed that the kissing and rubbing was consensual, but realized during the incident it was not and stopped. This raised a mistaken belief in consent issue.

After setting the matter down for trial, a section 276 application was made by Cory Wilson to raise the mistaken belief in consent issue by applying to cross-examine the complainant on her previous sexual history with S.Z., that she lied to police about. After making the application and disclosing damning text messages sent by the complainant to S.Z., the prosecutor agreed that there was no likelihood of conviction and stayed the charges.

This was the best outcome S.Z. could hope for.

P.T. was a youth accused of inappropriately touching the genitals a young child she was babysitting. The allegation was adamantly denied by P.T. and caused significant issues for her in the community, at school and at church. Cory Wilson took over the file from another lawyer who told the family of P.T. that there was no defence and that the only option was to plead guilty.

Cory was retained and after meeting with P.T., began working to clear her name. After several meetings with the assigned Crown Prosecutor, the criminal charges were withdrawn. Despite the previous defence lawyer telling the family there was no defence, Cory Wilson was able to have the charges withdrawn within three weeks of being retained.

This was an incredible outcome for P.T. and her entire family.

M.O. was alleged to have sexually assaulted his stepdaughter when she was between the ages of 5-9. The allegations were made when the complainant was 19 and shortly after M.O. cut her off financially and told her she needed to support herself. The complainant became incredibly upset when M.O. stopped paying her rent and giving her money to support her lifestyle, while refusing to work.

Leading up to trial, the Complainant sent the prosecutor several emails detailing the allegations, each with differing versions of events. The Complainant also told a member of victim services a different version of events.

After reviewing all the different versions of events that the Complainant had alleged, Cory Wilson was able to convince the prosecutor that there was no likelihood of conviction and the charges were withdrawn prior to trial.

As a result of the allegations, M.O. had his young children removed from his house pending the outcome of an investigation. Thankfully, right after the charges were withdrawn, the children were returned to M.O.

S.K. was accused by his ex-girlfriend of sexually assaulting her on two occasions during the relationship. The allegations were made months after the relationship ended and two days after S.K. filed paperwork for full custody of their shared child.

At trial, Cory Wilson extensively cross-examined the complainant about making a false allegation to keep full access to their shared child. After repeatedly denying that the timing was nothing but a coincidence, Cory confronted her with multiple texts in which she told a third-party that she would do anything to keep the child.

S.K. testified that he never sexually assaulted the complainant and that the first time she ever made such a claim was after he filed child custody paperwork.

The trial judge believed S.K. and found him not guilty. Not only was this a massive relief on the criminal side, but the finding of not guilty was used in the child custody case.

T.I. was accused by the daughter of a family friend of sexually assaulting her at a large party 10 years prior to making the complaint to police. Remarkably, the complainant did not see the person who allegedly assaulted her and instead told police that the body shape of the perpetrator somewhat matched T.I. At the time of the alleged offence, four other people were sleeping on the floor in the same room as the complainant, but none heard or saw a thing.

Despite the obvious issue with identification, police charged T.I. with multiple sexual offences because of the allegations.

After reviewing the disclosure, Cory Wilson immediately contacted the Crown Prosecutor’s office to have the obvious identification issue reviewed with a senior prosecutor. After reviewing the allegation, the prosecutor agreed that T.I. should have never been charges and withdrew the charges the next day.

This case shows how innocent people can so easily be charged with one of the worst criminal offences. Thankfully, Cory was able to quickly have the charges withdrawn saving T.I. the stress and cost of a trial.

C.U. was charged with multiple sexual offences as a result of an incident that occurred with the friend of his teenage daughter. It was alleged that the client followed her into the spare bedroom, started to hit on her and then put his hand up he skirt and digitally penetrated her despite her telling him to stop. The Complainant immediately called the police and C.U. was arrested and charged.

Cory Wilson received disclosure and found that the video recording of the Complainant’s statement to police was missing. After multiple requests, it was revealed that the investigating officer lost the recording. As a result, Cory informed the prosecutor he would be making an application to have the charges Stayed based on the significant issue. After providing the prosecutor with case law, the charges were withdrawn.

This was an incredible outcome for our client. He avoided the trial and walked away with no criminal record.

P.X. was charged with sexual assault after his young female neighbor alleged that he had taken her into his bedroom during a party and touched her vagina. P.X. denied it and the matter was set for trial.

After a lot of back and forth the with assigned Crown Prosecutor, Cory Wilson was able to negotiate that the matter be resolved by way of common assault with only a twelve-month period of probation. P.X. jumped at the opportunity to resolve the matter so favorably and resolved his case without the cost or stress of a trial.

R.G. was alleged to have groped his massage therapist while he was receiving the massage. She claimed that he reached up and grabbed her several times near her vagina when he was face down. She ran out of the room and called police. Our client remained on scene and denied touching the massage therapist. Not believing his version of events, police charged R.G. with sexual assault.

R.G. was devastated by the allegations and adamantly denied doing anything improper. He denied grabbing the complainant and said he waited for police because he had done nothing wrong.

The client and his family lived on the main floor of house and the complainant’s family rented the basement suite of the house. It was alleged by the teenage complainant that in the early morning hours after a party. P.S. came into the basement suite, held a knife to her and then sexually assaulted her until she was able to convince her to stop.

At trial, Cory Wilson cross-examined the complainant on her version of events that were simply unbelievable – many of the questions she could not answer. Cory was able to completely discredit the complainant by repeatedly putting to her previous inconsistent statements.

When the trial judge gave his decision, he laid out every instance that Cory Wilson discredited the complainant and found that P.S. truthfully denied committing the offence. As a result, P.S. was found not guilty.

As terrible as it is to be falsely accused of sexual assault, P.S. was able to get his life back and move forward after being found not guilty.

S.H. was accused by his former step-son of sexually assaulting him when he was 9 years old. The Complainant gave a Calgary Police Service detective a video recorded statement when he was 15 years old describing the alleged incident. In the incredibly brief interview, the Complainant gave no other details other than S.H. put his penis in my anus. The Detective failed to ask a single follow-up question to determine the validity of the allegations, and instead, charged S.H. with sexual assault and invitation to sexual touching. As a result, S.H. lost custody of his young daughter.

At trial, Cory Wilson extensively cross-examined the Complainant who was unable to answer the simplest of questions. During cross-examination, the Complainant became so angry with being caught in multiple lies that he threatened to beat up Cory in court. At the end of cross-examination, Cory Wilson confronted the complainant with text messages sent to a third-party that contradicted his version of events, which put a nail in his coffin.

Once cross-examination was complete, the Crown Prosecutor told the judge that based on cross, she was no longer prepared to proceed and S.H. was found not guilty.

This was an incredible outcome that could have been prevented had the investigating officer simply done her job and not accepted the allegation on face value.