Posted: May 14, 2021 8:37 PM NT | Last Updated: May 14
The jury of a trial for RNC Const. Doug Snelgrove, accused of sexually assaulting an intoxicated civilian, has been sequestered since Thursday afternoon.(Malone Mullin/CBC)
The jury deciding the verdict in a prolonged sexual assault case in Newfoundland and Labrador hasn t yet made up its mind, as the 12-person panel carries their debate into the weekend.
Reporters caught a glimpse into that secretive discussion twice at Supreme Court on Friday, as the jurors emerged to ask the judge questions about how to apply the law to the facts of this case.
If the jury reaches a verdict, they will decide the fate of Royal Newfoundland Constabulary officer Doug Snelgrove, who was arrested in 2015. The complainant has testified she was too intoxicated to remember consenting to sex, and only came to to discover Snelgrove, an on-duty police officer who gave her a ride to her apartment, having intercourse with her.
Posted: May 12, 2021 7:33 PM NT | Last Updated: May 13
RNC Const. Doug Snelgrove enters court ahead of closing arguments in his sexual assault retrial on Wednesday. (Malone Mullin/CBC)
The St. John s police officer being tried this week on a sex assault charge may have induced consent through an abuse of trust, prosecution argued Wednesday, calling him a knight in shining armour who set the plate for an opportunity to have sex with a vulnerable young woman while in uniform and on duty.
It marked the third time both Const. Doug Snelgrove and the complainant listened to attorneys pick apart their testimony.
Justice Vikas Khaladkar selected a jury panel Wednesday morning, launching attempt number three at a trial for Royal Newfoundland Constabulary officer Doug Snelgrove.
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Constable Kelsey Muise told a St. John’s, N.L., courtroom Wednesday that in January 2015, a woman in the back of her patrol car said she had been assaulted by a police officer.
Muise said she pulled the car over, flicked on the overhead light and turned around in her seat to face the woman.
“She was visibly upset,” Muise told the trial, adding that the woman was drunk and grew more distraught the longer she was in the vehicle. She said she put the woman’s allegation “through the chain of command” at the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary “because of the nature of the complaint.”
Dec 11, 2020 12:40 PM
A man convicted of attempted murder after trying to push another man off Signal Hill has been sentenced to four years in jail.
The 31-year-old is being credited for time-served, leaving 1,217 days or just over three years left to be served.
Justice Vikas Khaladkar also ordered the man to supply a DNA sample and that he have no contact or communication with the complainant.
According to the judgment, the man, who suffered from acute depression, concocted a murder-suicide plan in April of 2017, enticing the other man to go with him to Signal Hill to go “skiing.”
He convinced the other man to join him at Ladies’ Lookout, then tackled him and the two tumbled together down the slope. They got caught up in thick vegetation, and neither was seriously injured.