Jacob Hoggard abandons bid to challenge 2022 conviction [Video]

Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard has abandoned his bid to appeal his 2022 sexual assault conviction before Canada’s top court.

The Supreme Court of Canada website shows the former Hedley frontman discontinued his application for leave to appeal last Friday.

That’s the same day Hoggard, 40, was found not guilty of sexual assault in a separate, unrelated case in northeastern Ontario.

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In the 2022 case, a Toronto jury found Hoggard guilty of sexual assault causing bodily harm against an Ottawa woman, but not guilty of the same charge and of sexual interference in relation to a teenage fan.

His lawyers appealed the conviction on four grounds, including that the trial judge made an error in admitting expert evidence on the neurobiology of trauma.

In August, the Appeal Court found that while the judge had erred in allowing the testimony of clinical psychologist Lori Haskell, the judge had corrected any potential misuse of that evidence in answering the jury’s …