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Sentencing hearing today for billionaire businessman Frank Stronach
Prosecutors seek to restore a sexual assault guilty verdict and keep the case in Superior Court for sentencing.
- Frank Stronach, founder of Magna International, faces sentencing Thursday for indecent assault while the Crown challenges a mistrial ruling on his separate sexual assault conviction.
- Ontario Superior Court Justice Anne Molloy granted the mistrial after defense lawyer Leora Shemesh presented emails from a civil case that contradicted the complainant's testimony.
- Molloy found Stronach guilty of indecent assault for a 1977 incident in a Toronto apartment, characterizing his actions as "gross and disgusting conduct."
- The Crown is appealing the mistrial decision, arguing the sexual assault guilty verdict should be restored and the case returned to Superior Court for sentencing.
- Stronach is set to stand trial before a jury in Newmarket, Ont., next year in a separate sexual assault case involving six complainants.
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Frank Stronach faces sentencing hearing on indecent assault conviction
When his judge-alone trial began in February, Frank Stronach was facing 12 charges related to allegations of sexual assault from seven women. In a sentencing hearing Thursday, the 94-year-old businessman could be sentenced on just one of those charges — indecent assault.
·Ottawa, Canada
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