Jacob Hoggard seeking leave to appeal sex assault conviction at Supreme Court [Video]

Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard is seeking leave to appeal his sexual assault conviction before Canada’s top court.

Hoggard filed a notice of application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada earlier this week, arguing the Court of Appeal for Ontario – which recently upheld his conviction – failed to apply the proper test in determining whether an error made by the trial judge constituted a “harmless error.”

The proposed appeal raises questions of “national and public importance” that relate to the fairness of the trial and Hoggard’s submission that he was wrongfully convicted, the application argues.

A lawyer representing Hoggard declined to comment further.

Meanwhile, the Appeal Court said the Hedley frontman will be seeking bail at a hearing on Tuesday.

A three-judge appeal panel upheld Hoggard’s conviction last month.

Hoggard’s lawyers had appealed on four grounds, including that the trial judge erred by admitting the evidence of clinical psychologist Lori Haskell on the neurobiology of trauma.

In a unanimous ruling, the court found …