Light Edmonton nightclub promoter to remain in jail after SCOC dismisses charm interrogate

Posted January 12, 2023 8:41 pm
Updated January 13, 2023 8:37 pm
Matthew McKnight and his mom stroll into court, in Edmonton on Friday, July 10, 2020.
Jason Franson, The Canadian Press
Editor’s demonstrate: This tale has been up to this point to claim McKnight has bustle out of choices to charm his conviction, no longer his sentence.
A worn Edmonton nightclub employee who sexually assaulted several girls folk has bustle out of lawful choices to charm his conviction.
The Supreme Courtroom of Canada on Thursday brushed off an charm interrogate from Matthew Lloyd McKnight.
McKnight, who’s in his mid-30s, changed into as soon as accused of sexually assaulting 13 girls folk ranging in age from 17 to 22 between 2010 and 2016.
He changed into as soon as an assistant manager and promoter working for the proprietor of several bars and nightclubs in Edmonton.
Courtroom heard McKnight met a form of the girls folk in bars and assaulted them at his apartment.
He pleaded no longer guilty, but a jury convicted him on five counts of sexual assault.
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The contemplate in 2020 first and major sentenced McKnight to 16-and-a-half of years, but lowered his sentence to 10 years in conserving with the totality principle.
His sentence changed into as soon as extra lowered because of the an assault McKnight suffered on the Edmonton Remand Centre and the contemplate’s belief the worn nightclub consultant has an gorgeous likelihood for rehabilitation.
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McKnight changed into as soon as in the end ordered to again eight years in jail. The prosecution asked for a sentence of twenty-two-and-a-half of years in jail, while McKnight’s lawyer urged five to nine years.
Video submitted in court displays assault on convicted sex offender Matthew McKnight
McKnight’s legal professionals filed the attention of charm of his conviction in August 2020 that complained of “Crown counsel’s conduct in some unspecified time in the future of substandard-examination, in conjunction with asking questions laced with sarcasm and inflammatory language.”
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A panel of three judges with the Alberta Courtroom of Enchantment heard the topic in June 2021 and released its resolution, dismissing both grounds of the charm final summer time, on July 18, 2022.
That similar day, he took the case to the best court in Canada.
In sigh to charm a resolution of a court of charm to the Supreme Courtroom, Canadians need to interrogate the court for run away (permission) to manufacture so.
On Thursday, the SCOC came help and acknowledged no, dismissing the case.
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