Crown covers, asking court to ‘find each of the accused guilty as charged’
The myth that only a certain type of person would commit a sexual assault was also put forth by defence lawyers, Cunningham says, noting they suggested their clients’ “good character” is proof they would certainly not dedicate a sexual offense.
“The fact is that many people who commit sexual assault are hard-working, highly valued members of their community whom everyone regards as being of good character. It does not mean that they can’t commit or haven’t committed the offence of sexual assault.”
The last misconception is the fallacy that if there is self-blame, regret or pity, after that the sex was consensual, Cunningham claims, including E.M.’s regret and pity concerning what occurred were “weaponized versus her.”
The protection appeared to state E.M. “chose to abandon restraint” which “flirting and dancing on the dance floor make it more likely that she would choose to engage in group activity,” Cunningham competes.
The implicated people aren’t enabled to depend on their idea concerning wide sophisticated permission, or that even if E.M. did one point that she would certainly be okay with another thing, as a support, she includes.
Cunningham completes her closing disagreements by utilizing what E.M. stated throughout her statement: that the males were externalizing her and poking fun at her, and any type of among them can have discovered she had not been okay, yet they really did not.
That reasoning is simply component of the sexual offense misconceptions and “mistakes of law about what consent is and how it can be communicated,” Cunningham claims.
“I urge Your Honour to accept the evidence of E.M. and we urge Your Honour to find each of the accused guilty as charged.”
