Crown re-questions woman in sex assault trial of ex-world junior hockey players after marathon cross-exams

What is a Crown re-examination?

After seven days of cross-examination, E.M. will now face Crown re-examination.

Witnesses are first examined “in-chief” and then cross-examined by the opposing side.

After that, there’s a re-examination, which is a chance for the initial side (in this case, the Crown) to get the witness to explain or clarify testimony that came up in cross-examination.

New areas and new evidence can’t be brought up in re-examination.

The Crown is only allowed to ask E.M. about anything that came up in cross-examination, to give her a chance to explain or qualify answers that may have been damaging during her testimony.

The two Crowns in this case are Meaghan Cunningham and Heather Donkers.

Cunningham is doing the re-examination.

Supporters of E.M. taunt, heckle accused men outside court

About 50 supporters of E.M. were outside court again this morning, as they have been over several days of the trial.

As the accused men, their families and their lawyers walked into Superior Court, the supporters were holding signs and could be heard yelling “shame.” Some also appeared to be taunting the men about remarks heard during the proceedings.

For example, some supporters cited Cal Foote’s “party trick,” a reference to what his lawyer said about his ability to do the splits over E.M.’s face on the morning of June 19, 2018.

Today is likely the last day E.M. will testify. The Crown will ask her any questions stemming from the seven days of cross-examinations.

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