Hockey Canada sex assault scandal

CaptRenault said:

That's possible but you're speculating. The media is not allowed to report the reason for the mistrial. The only thing that has been reported is that: "...Wednesday afternoon, Carroccia told jurors that something had happened over the lunch hour that she needed to think about and discuss with the lawyers." That implies that something happened outside of the court proceedings, not during the trial.

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Well, all we can do is speculate. But since you added that piece of information, what likely happened during the lunch hour is someone overheard an inappropriate conversation with a juror. The only possible "out of the court proceedings" reason for a mistrial would be improper tampering or contact with a juror. And it then got reported to the Judge. Either the Court reporters, clerks or marshals could have been the reporters. They are all advised to report any such transgressions to the Court. Jurors are specifically told not to talk about the case when they are adjourned for the lunch hour.

Most courts have separate special elevators for the jurors so they are segregated from the public so that the chances of having such a conversation or overhearing something they should not overhear are lessened. I am not familiar with these London courts. I don't know how they are set up.

From an article in Friday’s Toronto Star: “it was all consensual.” It will be hard for the prosecution to get past that statement on video by the complainant.

The complainant said on video that “it was all consensual”
Smiling and wrapping herself in a towel, the woman was recorded in the hotel room on McLeod’s phone around 4:26 a.m. on June 19 saying “it was all consensual,” about 20 minutes before she’s seen on camera leaving the hotel.
“Are you recording me? OK, good, it was all consensual,” says the woman on the video, which was shown to the jury on Wednesday. “You are so paranoid, holy. I enjoyed it. It was fine. It was all consensual. I am so sober, that’s why I can’t do this right now.”
In a shorter video recorded at 3:25 a.m., a voice off-camera asks the woman if she’s “OK with this” and she replies: “I’m OK with this.”
Both recordings were turned over to London police by McLeod in July 2018.

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