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P.R. acquitted of one count of Sexual Assault and one count of Assault following a two-day trial at the Ontario Court of Justice, Toronto. The complainant alleged non-consensual penetrative sex following an evening spent smoking marijuana with her former friend, the accused. The client denied any sexual contact. Several male friends of the complainant secretly recorded the accused “confessing” to the offence.  At trial, the complainant claimed not to remember most of the details she had relayed to the police. Mr. Whitfield pointed to serious reliability concerns in complainant’s evidence, including an admission that the complainant had originally considered the assault to be a dream. Mr. Whitfield also noted the oppressive circumstances of the confession video. The trial judge accepted Mr. Whitfield’s submissions on the so-called confession and, in acquitting the accused, cited profound reliability concerns with the complainant’s evidence.